Simple explanation:
the ship was mined and sunk off Varna 08.02.20. Raised only in 1938 she was still in repair at Odessa, when she was scuttled as a blockship in 1941.
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Some info from Miramar ship index:
IDNo: 6721400 Year: 1913
Name: IMPERATOR PYOTR VELIKIY Keel:
Type: Passenger/cargo Launch Date: 11.6.13
Flag: RUS Date of completion: 10.13
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Tons: 5556 Link: 1569
DWT: Yard No: 419
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: 116.0 Country of build: GBR
Beam: 15.8 Builder: John Brown
Material of build: Location of yard: Clydebank
Number of
screws/Mchy/
Speed(kn): 2T-14
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Naval or paramilitary marking :
A: *
End: 1987
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Subsequent History:
47 YAKUTIYA - 77 MORSKAYA II
I think it's interesting that she kept her Tsarist name right until 1947! All other ships from that era were renamed shortly after the revolution of 1917.
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the ship was mined and sunk off Varna 08.02.20. Raised only in 1938 she was still in repair at Odessa, when she was scuttled as a blockship in 1941.
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IDNo: 6721400 Year: 1913
Name: IMPERATOR PYOTR VELIKIY Keel:
Type: Passenger/cargo Launch Date: 11.6.13
Flag: RUS Date of completion: 10.13
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Tons: 5556 Link: 1569
DWT: Yard No: 419
Length overall: Ship Design:
LPP: 116.0 Country of build: GBR
Beam: 15.8 Builder: John Brown
Material of build: Location of yard: Clydebank
Number of
screws/Mchy/
Speed(kn): 2T-14
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Naval or paramilitary marking :
A: *
End: 1987
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Subsequent History:
47 YAKUTIYA - 77 MORSKAYA II
Disposal Data:
foundered 35.04.48N/128.59.48E 17.6.87
I think it's interesting that she kept her Tsarist name right until 1947! All other ships from that era were renamed shortly after the revolution of 1917.
Brgds.
Ralph
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