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Name Fizik Kurchatov(Russian Физик Курчатов)Call sign UYOM Register number М-27551 Class formula until 1975 Л*Р4/1С *РСМ Class formula from 1975 КМ(*)Л3[1] IMO number 5404093 Namesake Leninsky Komsomol class cargo ships, projuct 567 and 567К. Port of registry June 1962 – 30 April 1986 Odessa, USSR30 April 1986 - August 1986 Gorgetown, Cayman Islands Renamed Kurchat, home port George Town, Cayman Islands. | ||
Fizik Kurchatov (Russian: Физик Курчатов) was a multi-purpose tweendecker freighter owned by the Black Sea Shipping Company (Soviet Union). It belonged to the Leninsky Komsomol class of cargo ships, and had steam turbine engines and oneproject 567K. The ship was named after Soviet scientist and physicist Igor Vasiliyevich Kurchatov (1903-1960).
Contents
- History
- During the Cuban Crisis
- 1973 ArabIsraeli War
- USSR created the new fleet of Ethiopia
- Cuba
- The fate
- References
This ship was one of the Soviet ships that took part in:
History
The keel of the ship was laid down in the Kherson Shipyard on 20th of March 1961. By that time the shipyard had already built seven sister ships. The ship Fizik Kurchatov was built in June, 1962. The ship was handed over to the Black Sea Shipping Company on the 30 of June, 1962.
During the Cuban Crisis
The maiden voyage was reported by some sources to be from Nikolayev to Cuba. The cargo on board was an air defense battalion including the accompanying equipment and troops. After unloading on Cuba the ship loaded sugar and sailed to return to USSR in June, 1962,. Other sources state that the ship was built in May and delivered to the Black Sea shipping Company after this voyage.
Two voyages of this ship in Operation Anadyr:
On the 23 of October, 1962, the ship still was on Cuba.
The Soviet cargo ship Fizik Kurchatov left Cuba on the 7 of November 1962 and was photographed by American reconnaissance planes during its return to the Soviet Union. The ship transported back to the USSR six canvas-covered missiles on the open main deck. These were the same missiles which had been aimed toward the United States. The Soviet Union, following the American blockade of Cuba, decided to send the missiles back to its territory.
1973 Arab–Israeli War
The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War, also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, was a war fought by the coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel from October 6 to 25, 1973. Total 23 or more Soviet merchant ships carried military cargoes to Siria and Egyptian October and November, 1973 and eight of them were Leninsky Komsomol class of cargo ships. The ship Fizik Kurchatov was one of this seven Leninsky Komsomol class of cargo ships.
According to U.S. information the ship Fizik Kurchatov three time visited.:
USSR created the new fleet of Ethiopia.
The ship Fizik Kurchatov brought on board and delivered to Ethiopia two Artillery Cutters Project 1400ME "P-205" and "P-206" in October 1982 when the Soviet Union created the new fleet of Ethiopia.
Cuba
The ship Fizik Kurchatov often visited the Cuba and after Caribbean Crisis. Last years this ship was sent to Cuba mostly and the attached letter confirm it.
The fate
The ship was renamed Kurchat and changed home port to George Town, Cayman Islands, on 30 of April 1986 and scrapped at Kaohsiung (China) in August 1986.