Steam tug
Built: 1958, Leningrad, Sovjetunion
Length: 32,6 m
Bream: 8 m
Draft: 3,1 m
Tonnage: 238
DWT 89 tons
Engine: Triple expansion steam engine, 480 hp.
Speed: 10,5 knots.
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In 1994 or 95 Baltietis arriwed to Slite-Gotland-Sweden from Riga-Latvia.
Baltietis came as a smugglership. The Tug had over sixty refugees (some
of them children) from Pakistan onboard. When they arriwed the crew used
weapon to force theirs "passengers" into liferafts, outside the coast of
Gotland. They did all went ashore safety. Baltietis were soon taken by the Swedish Coast Guard. The crew
was arrested, and soon after that, judged to prison in Sweden. The crew
rented Baltietis from the Latvian owners.
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The first Swedish owner was from FÅRÖSUND Gotland – Sweden.
He bought her from the Swedish Coast Guard.
2002-03 he selled her to a family in STOCKHOLM - Swe. In 2005 she was sold
to Jatop Aps for breaking up.
A sister vessel, RUDOKOP is owned by a Canadian company and trading
around the world doing promotion for their products.
(Thordon International Inc)
Rudokop: http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=170989&cid=33
From the scrapping :http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=170591
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=170594
Rgds/Immen