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Name: SOKOL
Launched: 1868
Completed: 1868
Builder: Andrew Leslie & Co, Hebburn
Yard Number: 91
Dimensions: 379grt, 182nrt, 190.5 x 29.0 x 8.2ft; (1888: 258grt, 138nrt, 129.0 x 29.4 x 8.8ft)
Engines: 2 x 2cyl (18 & 18 x 15ins), 40hp; (1888: 2 x C2cyl, 80nhp)
Engines by: Thompson, Boyd & Co, Newcastle; (1888: Sevastopol)
Propulsion: 2 x Screws; (1888: 7.0knots)
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1868 Russian Steam Navigation & Trading Co, Odessa, Russia
1920 Government of Soviet Russia
1922 Sovtorgflot, Sevastopol; renamed ALESHKI
1927 Stricken
Comments: Built as a Coaster but rebuilt & converted into a tug at Sevastopol in 1888
1888: Two new steam compound engines
1918: Still listed as a steam tug in Lloyds Register
1927: Stricken from Soviet list of sea vessels as sold for scrap