SS Karaganda

Soviet steamer Karaganda. Photo dated between 18 of March 1961 and 1st of October 1963.


West class cargo steamers as per U.S. classification United States[1] and Belarussia class cargo steamers as per USSR classification Soviet Union[2]
History
Name:
  • Karaganda[1] from 6 February 1945 to 1967. (Russian: Караганда)
  • IMO number: 5518186 [1]
Namesake:
  • Circinus (1919–30)
  • Vermar (1930-1942)
  • Kamenets-Podolsk (1942–44)
Owner:
Operator:
Port of registry:
Builder: Columbia River Shipbuilding Company, Portland, Oregon, United States USA.[2]
Launched: Year of built: 1919.[2]
Renamed:
  • Circinus (1919-1930);[2]
  • Vermar (1930 – 20 Nov 1942);[2]
  • Kamenets-Podolsk (Russian: Каменец-Подольск) (20 Nov 1942 – Apr 1944)[2]
  • Karaganda (Russian: Караганда) (Apr 1944 – 1967)[2]
Fate: scrapped in 1967
General characteristics
Type: freighter, tweendecker
Tonnage: 10,000 ton about [3]
Length: 410.0 ft (124.97 m).[2]
Beam: 54.2 ft (16.52 m).[2]
Height: 27.5 ft (8.38 m).[2]
Propulsion: 2328 hrp.[2] Single screw.
Speed: 10 knots (economic speed).[2]
Capacity: GRT=5568.[2]
Crew: 60 men [3]
Armament: machine guns 1 x 102 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm.[2]

Karaganda (Russian: Караганда) was a merchant steam ship of the Black Sea Shipping Company (Soviet Union) from 9 March 1950 to 1967.[2][4] This ship was built in the USA and was used in companies of USA and USSR.

Ship's particulars.

Design 1013 ship.[2] Low free board.

Cargo gear: derricks equipped with steam motors.
Cargo holds: 4 cargo holds and tweendecks.

History

This ship was built in 1919 in United States.[2]

SS Circinus (1919–1930).

During and just after World War I, the Shipping Board's sales campaigns urged Americans to buy ships for wealth and patriotism. Other ethnic groups set up shipping lines by appealing to group solidarity. So, Irish businessmen created the "Green Star Line".[5]

GREEN STAR WILL PLY ATLANTIC

Four Steamers Purchased Here to Sail From Baltimore.
ORIENTAL RUN PROMISED
Cruft Now Being Built at Standifer Plant Expected to Be Operated on Pacific.

Speculation as to the future field of operations of the Green Star Steamship company, which purchased four steel steamers in Portland and placed orders for the construction of five more, was ended last week by a formal announcement from the headquarters of the company in Baltimore, where the Green Star line has purchased a large building to serve as a home for its shipping enterprises. The last of the steamers purchased by, the line here, the Circlnus, sailed from Astoria Wednesday with a full cargo of lumber for Melbourne and Adelaide, Australia. This cargo amounted to 4.086,103 feet, it is reported by Brown & McCabe, stevedores, who had charge of loading the vessel.[6][7]
"The new steel steamer Circinus of the "Green Star Line" dropped down to St. Helens yesterday and will start loading there Monday. The Circinus has been chartered by J.J. Moore of San Francisco to carry a full cargo of lumber to Australia. She will load at several Columbia river ports. She experienced no trouble beyond a slight checking of her speed in moving through the loose Ice."[8]
"Freighter on rocks in So. Pacific.

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 21 – (AP) – Believed to have lost its course in a heavy fog that prevailed last night, the freighter Circinus, en route to San Diego, San Pedro and San Francisco from New York, struck the rocks at Descanso Point, Lower California, 16 miles south of here, according to information received here this morning. The Circinus is a 10,000-ton ship of the Isthmian Line and carries a crew of 60 men. According to the information received here, the ship is resting easily and is in no immediate danger.

Captain Oakley J. Hall of the "Star and Crescent Boat Company" sent a company's tug, Palomar, to the aid of the Circinus and at the same time requested the navy department to dispatch the naval tug Koka to the scene".[3]

"ROCK PREVENTS SHIP'S SINKING.
(United Press Dispatch)
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 30 - A huge bolder which stuck to the hull of the freighter Circinus, when grounded 17 miles south of the border, kept tho ship from sinking, a diver discovered. The freighter was floated Wednesday and brought here.
The rock punctured both bottoms of the vessel. It was embedded firmly".[11]

"Calmar Steamship Co." (1927–1976). A subsidiary of "Bethlehem Steel Corp.", serving the intercoastal trade. The company was established by Bethlehem in 1927 to complete with United States Steel's Isthmian Line. Bethlehem had previously operated the "Ore Steamship Corp." as a proprietary operation, but "Calmar" was only "half proprietary", carrying exclusively Bethlehem's steel westbound, but functioning as a common carrier on the return voyage to the East Coast by carrying lumber from a variety of shippers. In addition, "Calmar" collaborated with Moore-McCormack in these voyages.[12]

Isthmian Lines House Flag from 1910 to 1974.
"CALMAR BUYS SHIPS.

The "Calmar Line" has purchased five freighters from the "Planet Steamship company", according to announcement from New York. This purchase increases the Calmar intercoastal fleet to 11 ships. The new craft are 880 tons register.

The vessels involved are all well known on this coast, consisting of the Circinius, Corvus, Clauseus, Centaurus and Eurana. They have run into local ports for several years under the Isthmian Line houseflag".[13]

The steamer Circinius was renamed Vermar in 1930.

SS Vermar (1930–1942)

"H. W. Warley, vice president of the "Calmar Steamship Corporation", has announced that the concern has purchased three freighters of 10,000 tons deadweight capacity, bringing its intercoastal fleet to 14 ships. The three vessels, the Ehnsport, Colorado Springs, and Edgehill, will enter service as the Kenmar, Marymar, and Oremar, following the nomenclature system now in effect and honoring the states of Kentucky, Maryland, and Oregon.

The expansion program will make possible a new schedule of weekly sailings between ports on the two coasts, Mr. Warley explained. In future, vessels will sail westbound from Baltimore each Saturday and from Philadelphia on Wednesdays, for Los Angeles, San Francisco, Alameda, Oakland, Richmond, Calif, Portland, Seattle, and Tacoma. It is also planned to reduce the transit time to the northernmost ports. The first sailing for the West Coast will be that of the Vermar, leaving Baltimore January 7 and returning from Puget Sound February 16."[14]

"Portland Hearings Will be Continued this Wednesday.

PORTLAND, Ore., May 1. (AP) - Labor hitched up its "justiciable controversies" today and prepared to make a fresh assault on Oregon's new union-control law.

At a premilinary hearing on a constitutional test by a group of unions, three circuit cuort judges decided no "justiciable controversy" had been shown - the union hadn't proved they were hurt.

When the case reaches court again Wednesday, a new suit will be included. A motion picture operator's union ask the right to picked the Circle theater because of contract differences although it constitutes less than a majority of employers and under the law could not picket. Waterfront Mentioned

If that doesn't provide enough force to test the law which was passed last November in the wake of a year-long campaign against labor terrorism, there is the matter of waterfront picketing.

CIO woodworkers from a Carlton lumber mill, on strike because three members of their union were realized, continued to prevent loading of lumber from the mill on the freighter Vermar. Ship agents threatened to invoke the control law on the ground less than half the mill's employees were involved, a stand that ended picketing at the mill last week.

It was indicated the theater suit".[15]
"Restraining Order Blocks Picketing.

PORTLAND, Ore., May 5. (AP) - A temporary restraining order to stop picketing was issued Wednesday in one of Portsland's two labor controversies that have tied up ships and the order was settled when the union accepted a company offer.

The International Woodworkers of America Wednesday accepted an offer from the Engle & Worth Lumber company at Cariton, ending the dispute that prevented the freighter Vermar loading lumber for five days. The firm reinstated two dismissed workers.
Circuit Judge John P. Winter issued the order restraining pickets of the maritime office employees' local, 1-25, from picketing the steamer William Luckenbach.

The union picketed the boat in protest to the company's asserted failure to company with a national labor relations board order to reinstate three workers".[16]
"Moody's Report On Good Cases Barred by Court.

Portland, May 6 (AP) – Oregon's union-control law faced a new challenge today in a series of waterfront disputes.

While three circuit judges heard defendant officials answer a labor coalition test of the law's constitutionally, another was added when charges against 21 men indicated for alleged unlawful picketing of the steamer Vermar were shifted to the same court.

Accused of having prevented loading of the freighter Vermar with lumber from a Carlton sawmill, the men, mostly members of the Carlton CIO woodworkers' union, were realised from custody after a demurrer to the indictments was filed.

Gus Solomon, CIO attorney who filed the demurrer on the ground that the law was unconstitutional, asked transfer of the case to the judges hearing the test.

The law forbids demonstrations on premises of employers not involved in controversies and in cases where less than majority of workers are concerned. The woodworkers' strike at the Carlton mill was settled but only after loading of the Vermar was delayed three days.

George Cron, who declared the state courts had no jurisdiction and picketed in defiance of the circuit court order, was charged with contempt but released on bond. However longshoremen and CIO sailors pleaded "danger" and refused to board the vessel.

Cron's arrest followed a demonstration be the maritime office workers' union in protesting alleged refusal of the Luckenbach line to heed a national labor relations board order and reinstate three members with back pay.

In the original labor-coalition test of the law, the court acting upon answers filed by defendant city, county and state officials admitted all the evedence with the exception of a report on labor terrorism by special prosecutor Ralph Moody, which is termed a "special pleading by a skilled partisan"."[17]

In the immediate post-World War II period, Calmar purchased eight Liberty ships and modified them for the company's purposes.[12] Seems the ship Vermar was counted as one of these eight Liberty ships, but she was not really Liberty class ships.

SS Каменец-Подольск (1942–1944).

Ship Караганда in Far East Shipping Company (1945 – March 1950).

The ship, ex-Circinus, ex-Vermar , ex-Kamenets-Podolsk, was back after major overhaul to the Far East Shipping Company from USA on the 6th of February 1945 and was named Karaganda due to another ship already was named Kamenets-Podolsk. So, the ship was named in honor Karaganda city in Kazahstan SSR, USSR.

Ship Караганда in Black Sea Shipping Company from March 1950 to April 1957.

Seems this steamer was used for the Line between Soviet Black Sea ports and Indian ports from the 1950s. So, Soviet Union magazine Ogoniok (Russian: Огонёк) number 38, 14 September 1952, wrote:

"To the shores of India.

... Joint Committee was established For the purpose of immediate assistance to the hungry people in the Andhra State. The Committee members belong to different political organizations. The Committee requested the Trade Unions with a request to help the starving in Andhra State.

As reported by our press, Soviet trade unions warmly responded to this request and decided to send food to the starving population of the southern regions of India.

Again "the ships of peace and friendship" go to the shores of India. The ship Karaganda is already in the Red Sea, on the way to India. The wheat was grown Ukrainian farmers and after loaded in the holds. On the eve of the departure from the Soviet Union the crew of Karaganda under command of Captain P. I. Boyko worked tirelessly to prepare the ship for exemplary long voyage through many Seas and the Indian Ocean. The completion of ship's loading was eight hours earlier of schedule. The crew of the ship Karaganda declared own voyage as Stakhanovite movement and dedicated it to the XIX Congress of the party....[18]

Collision in May 1957.

The ship Karaganda, GRT more than 6000, under command of captain P. I. Boyko, discovered the lights of an oncoming vessel at a distance of 100 meters approximately at 01 hrs 14 min on 1 May 1957, when she was following "slow ahead" in the Black Sea during the fog with visibility up to 50–70 meters. That was the ship Zaporozhye, GRT 2000 approximately, under the command of captain L. M. Preobrazhensky which was coming with speed slow ahead also, 5-6 knots, and on this ship the lights of the ship Karaganda were seen on a distance of approximately 100 m. The command "full speed astern" were given on both ships for 2–3 minutes before collision, but was not possible to snub the ships and Karaganda, having considerable inertia of moving forward, hit the port side board of the ship Zaporozhye by own left foreword quarter and by the left anchor at 01 hours 16 minutes. The Zaporozhye sank rapidly after 28 minutes due to list was increased rapidly to the port side. The Karaganda suffered a lot of damage to the bow part of the hull. Due to correct actions of the captain of the Zaporozhye after the collision, who took all demanded measures setting for the salvation of all 54 crew members as well as the ship's papers and money, the abandonment of the sinking ship was organized without panic and in compliance with good maritime traditions. The watch sailor was risking own life when he hacked the jammed door of the chief mate's cabin and released the chief officer before the sinking vessel. There were no victims after the collision of two ships and the loss of one of them.[19]

Due 1 May was one of the main the Soviet Union celebrations the date of collision was changed to 3 May 1957.[19]

One side of card from the personnel department of Black Sea Shipping Company as confirmation that the person worked on the ships Nezhin, Karaganda, Metallurg Anosov. And only this person worked on these three ships.

MS Караганда between June 1957 and April 1961.

After the collision of two Black Sea Shipping Company ships, all big ships of company were equipped with radar for some years.

When Nikolay, his previous ship was steamer Nezhin, joined the motor-ship Karaganda on 18 March 1961, the ship already was equipped with one radar and re-equipped as a motor-ship.

To read article: SS Nezhin

The word "Gde" in Odessa language

The mix of two official language of part of population named "Soorzhyck" (Russian: "суржик") language in Russia and Ukraine. A person speaking on "Soorzhyk" also named a "soorzhyk". The population of Odessa had good mix of two languages, Ukrainian and Russian, in the 1960s still. Due to Odessa citizens use mix of more than two languages it was impossible to name "Soorzhyk" language. And Odessa citizens did not glad when somebody call them "soorzhyks". They say that Odessa has own language.

Also Odessa citizens use Russian worlds so that other population of the U.S.S.R. smile and sometimes smile wildly. It is depends and questions including the word "Gde" (Russian: "Где").

English question-word "Where" has following translations on Russian:

For example:

Odessa citizen can replace the word "Куда" by the word "Где":

It is means that the word "Где" can means and position, and direction in Odessa. And other population of the USSR smile when Odessa somebody say like this. Theremore, Odessa citizens can replace other question-words by the "Где" or directly or changing the phraze:

can be changed as

Gde-Gde? Na Karagande.

Rest hours on board of Soviet ship Karaganda during the voyage to India. A haircut and having between cargo for India. Photo dated 1961 or 1962.

"Gde-gde..." (Russian: "Где-где" and on English: "Where, where") - it is an adverb of Russian language. Mostly "gde-gde" means any area or any place where is very bad conditions or conditions more worst then in other mentioned place as per text in the sentence. For example:

Karaganda is a city in Kazahstan that was built during Soviet Union period and is known for coal mining and concentration camps. It is good rhyme: "Gde, gde? V Karagande!" where last character "a" changed to "e" as per Russian grammatical rules.

Rest hours on board of Soviet ship Karaganda during the voyage to India. The crew members play dominoes close to lashed cargo for India during rest hours. Photo dated 1961 or 1962.

In case somebody asked any crew member of ship Karaganda:
- "Where are You now?" -
he reply
- "Gde, gde? Na Karagande?" (English: "Where, where? On (board of) Karaganda") - it is means on board of ship Karaganda.

The same reply was from Nikolay to anybody. It is means that conditions on this ship was not very good due the Karaganda was old and one of the worst ships of Black Sea Shipping company. The Karaganda was re-equipped as motor-ship before outomn 1961. The ship was built on the riveted joints, but the metal sheets of the hull were thick. Cargo derricks were equipped by hydraulic motors. During the engines run the motorman had to check heating of cylinders by hand and was necessary often to add oil.

MS Karaganda between May 1961 and autumn 1962

Daughters of Grigoriy Zhukovsky at Statue of Graf Vorontsov, Odessa on the Soviet Army Square in Odessa in 1954.

Nikolay joined Karagnda as motorman. Motorman Ivan already was a crew member of this ship in the same rank. Due population stocked up on coal for winter season beforehand Ivan asked Nikolay to assist one family. Every seaman of Black Sea Shipping Company could receive a certain amount of coal without payment as the furnaces was used for heating in the houses in 1960-s still. Due to Nikolay was not married and had not own house he was agree to give own portion of coal to that family. For this reason was necessary to take signature, name and passport details for formalities and he visited that family. That was Zhukovsky family.

Zhukovsky family lived on the Kartomyshevskaya Street, 26, Moldavanka district in Odessa. That was old yard that include 8 houses about. Moldavanka district was recognized Odessa city center of intelligence (ruzvedka) due to the presence of a large network of catacombs beneath this district.

Grigoriy Fedorovitch Zhukovsky was the head of family. His wife was Antonina Zhukovskay (maiden name was Chernyavskaya). The already had three daughters. The oldest and the yangest daughters was not merried yet. The medium daughter was married to Ivan. Nikolay commenced meetings with the youngest daughter after first visit to this family. Soon they were married, in September 1961.

The ship Karaganda carried cargoes to the Eastern Mediterranean ports and trough Suez Canal to India, Yemen ports. During period from May 1961 and October 1963 Karaganda likes did not visited Spain, France and did not passed Gibraltar strait.

MS Karaganda between December 1962 and September 1963.

The ship arrived in Odessa from Alexandria, Egypt on 9 February 1963.

The ship visited Venezia in summer 1963 approximately.[23]

MS Karaganda between October 1963 and 1967.

Nikolay was sing off the ship Karaganda for vacation on 1 October 1963. During the vacation he had to pass courses to change qualification to motoman of turbine engines. His next ship became Metallurg Anosov.

The "beastito" began to walk alone, without any support from anybody, on 2 November 1963. The ship Karaganda was used for marriage between two seamen of Karaganda and two daughters of Grigoriy Zhukovsky. If Ivan knew some details about ruzvedka with Zukovsky family, Nikolay did not know about it.

There is no any information about this period and seems the ship run between Black Sea ports and Eastern Mediterranean due to ship's age 44-48.

The fate.

The ship Karaganda, IMO number 5518186, was scrapped in 1967.

The new motor vessel Karaganda, IMO number 6912889, was built in GDR in June 1969 for the Baltic Sea Shipping Company, USSR.[24]

Crew members.

Captains:

References

  1. 1 2 3 Суда Украины. >> Одесское морское пароходство. >> Грузовые суда. >> Forum.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Тип "Белоруссия" (пр. 1013) - 25 единиц >> 12. КАРАГАНДА (до 1930 г. "Circinus", до 1942 г. "Vermar", до 1944 г. "Каменец-Подольск").
  3. 1 2 3 "Freighter on rocks in So. Pacific", Prescott Evening Courier, 21 September 1927.
  4. ↑ Columbia River Shipbuilding, Portland OR
  5. ↑ Judith Stein. "The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society. >> The Black Star Line". p. 71.
  6. ↑ The Sunday "OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND," JANUARY 18, 1920. >> GREEN STAR WILL PLYS ATLANTIC
  7. ↑ Historic Oregan Nespaper >> The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, January 18, 1920, SECTION TWO, Image 46.
  8. ↑ Historic Oregan Newspapers. >> Morning Oregonian (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, December 20, 1919, Image 15, p. 15. >> Image and text provided by University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR.
  9. ↑ "SHIPPING", The Register (Adelaide, SA: 1901 – 1929), Saturday, 28 February 1920; p. 10.
  10. ↑ Marcus Garvey, Robert A. Hill, Universal Negro Improvement Association. Volume IV. The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. p. 873.
  11. ↑ California Digital Newspaper Collection. >>The Madera Tribune, Number 126, 30 September 1927. Article.
  12. 1 2 Kenneth J. Blume (2012). Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Maritime Industry. >> Calmar Steamship Co. (1927-1976). Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth U.K.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. pp. 90, 91.
  13. ↑ "Calmar Buys Ships". The Oakland Tribune. Oakland, California. 13 December 1929. p. 61. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  14. ↑ "Calmar Steamship Corp. Buys Three IO,OOO-Ton Freighters", The Master, Mate and Pilot, number 8, December 1938, p. 12.
  15. ↑ "Portland Hearings Will be Continued this Wednesday", Eugene Register-Guard, May 1, 1939.
  16. ↑ "Restraining Order Blocks Picketing", The Spokane Daily Chronicle, May 5, 1939.
  17. ↑ "Moody’s Report On Good Cases Barred by Court", The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, 6 May 1939, p. 12.
  18. ↑ B. Georgiyev (1952-09-14). "К берегам Индии.". Ogoniok. Pravda. p. 9.
  19. 1 2 Морской Флот СССР >> Суда ММФ СССР >> Азовское Морское Пароходство.
  20. ↑ Словари и энциклопедии на Академике. >> Толковый словарь Ушакова. >> ГДЕ-ГДЕ это:
  21. ↑ Словари и энциклопедии на Академике. >> Толковый словарь Ушакова. >> Фразеологический словарь русского литературного языка. >> Где-где это:
  22. ↑ Словарь синонимов. >> где-где это:
  23. ↑ The attached photos confirm it.
  24. ↑ ВТ >> Булункан - Караганда.

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