Novaya Ladoga

Update 07.10.2023
Current Name Novaya Ladoga
Previous Name Leninskaya Iskra (until 1992), Volgo-Balt 125
Classification Society Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
IMO 8230053
Call Sign V2VG
Manager Baltic Atlant Handels GmbH, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany
Owner Nola Shipping Co. Ltd., Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany
Flag Antigua & Barbuda
Port of Registry St. John's
Type of Ship dry cargo ship
Completion 1970
Shipyard Zavody Tazkeho Strojarstva (ZTS), Komarno, Czechoslovakia
Building No. 1325
GT 2.457
DWT [t] 3.261
Overall Length [m] 114,00
Registered Breadth [m] 13,23
Maximum Draught [m] 3,63
Propulsion [KW] 758
Propulsion [BHP] 1.030
Speed [Kn] 10,0
Capacity Grain [m3] 4.720
Capacity Bales [m3] 4.720
Additional Information 17th ship of a series of almost identically constructed cargo ships of type "Volgo-Balt" (65 vessels in design "2-95A") - also see >Evgenia< (design "791") and >Volgo-Balt 107< (design "2-95") - in 2009 the ship was renamed >Fort Azov< - >Fort Azov< sank after developing a list in Black Sea one mile north of Ayancik, Turkey in position 41.58N, 034.35E on 19/02/2015. She had diverted to Ayancik because her timber cargo shifted whilst on voyage from Varna to Fatsa, Turkey. The crew abandoned ship to life rafts and were rescued by the coastguard.
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