Last revised 28 February 2002
(new photos added)
TEESSHIPS
A FAVOURITE SHIP
PULKOVO
The only view I could get, but I still like this study of a fine old ship with the water reflecting off her hull. This was the PULKOVO at Liverpool on 11 July 1967.
She was owned by the U.S.S.R., of 2149 gross tons, and had been built at Gothenburg in 1929, ex Pohjanmaa-46, ex Nordland-38, ex Manhem. Broken up in 1970.
Roger Jordan's THE WORLD'S MERCHANT FLEETS 1939 shows that she was renamed from her original name of MANHEM in 1931. As the POHJANMAA she was owned prewar by Finska Angfartygs A/B of Helsinki. She fell under German control in 1941 and in 1945 was a war reparation to Russia being renamed the following year.
28.2.02: Earlier this month George Robinson [RIVERSEA INTERNATIONAL] featured a couple of Charlie Hill's photos of the PULKOVO at Goole:
By amazing coincidence the very next day Ken Smith showed a
photo on:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/merchant-ship-photos
and the companion site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shiplovers/
and asked if anyone could identify the "Russian steamer"
photographed on the Thames in the early 1950s! One of the easier questions of
the day!!:
(And it is nice for me to have a broadside view of one of my favourite ships!)