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Motor ship "Armenia"

I created it in honor of the 78th anniversary of the victory! -- and in honor of the 82nd year of the death of the ship.
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For this ship to work, you need to turn on the endless electricity
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Displacement 5770 tons
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Length 107.7 m
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Width 15.5 m
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Depth 7.84 m
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Draft 5.95 m.
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Speed 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
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Power 2 x 1472
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Crew 96 people,
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Passenger capacity 950 people.
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The Soviet hospital ship Armenia (Russian: теплоход «Армения», romanized: teplokhod "Armenya") was a transport ship operated by the Soviet Union during World War II to carry both wounded soldiers and military cargo. It had originally been built as a passenger ship for operations on the Black Sea.

Armenia was sunk on 7 November 1941 by German aircraft while evacuating civilians and wounded soldiers from Crimea. It has been estimated that approximately 5,000 to 7,000 people were killed during the sinking, making it one of the deadliest maritime disasters in history. There were only 8 survivors.

Armenia, built in 1928 at Baltic Shipyards in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), was one of four Adzharia-class passenger liners specifically designed for use on the Black Sea. They were the first passenger ships to be built in the newly formed Soviet Union. Armenia was a mid-sized vessel capable of carrying 1,000 tons of cargo as well as about 550 passengers in first-, second-, and third-class accommodations. On short trips it could carry 400–500 more on deck. Her draft of 5.5 meters allowed access to the shallow-water ports of the Crimean Peninsula. Throughout the 1930s she and her sister ships – Adzharia, Abkhazia, and Ukraina – reliably ferried passengers, mail, and cargo between Black Sea ports such as Odessa, Mariupol, Sevastopol, Yalta, and Batum.

Following the invasion of the Soviet Union by German forces on 22 June 1941, Armenia was requisitioned by the Soviet Navy for use as a transport and hospital ship. By late October 1941 the German Wehrmacht's 11th Army, under General Erich von Manstein, had cut off the Crimean Peninsula, laying siege to Sevastopol. For the Soviets, the only way in or out of the beleaguered city was by sea. In early November Armenia, painted with the large red crosses of a hospital ship, was tasked with removing wounded Russian soldiers, medical personnel, and civilians from Sevastopol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_hospital_ship_Armenia (site where I got the information from)

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