GRIBOJEDOV or GRIBOEDOV.... or GRIBOYEDOV ?

Thankyou for your most interesting message Rikhard

I shall correct the narrative accordingly

In case you do not know Finnish shipping historian Risto Brzoza [mailto:[email protected]], I am sure that he would be be pleased to hear from you

best regards
Malcolm Cranfield

The ship was not sold to the Soviet Union.She was part of the reparations Finland had to pay to the USSR after the war. My father, captain at the ship, had the unpleasant duty to bring it over to the russians in Leningrad, the same ship on which he had carried 44 Brewster Buffalo fighterplanes from USA to Finland during the Winterwar 1940.