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¾ Starboard bow view of S.S. KORSUN SHEVCHENKOVSKIY entering Cardiff Docks with a cargo of sawn timber.

One of the vessels that made up the massive merchant fleet of the former USSR was the 1925 gross ton steamer Korsun Shevchenkovskiy, seen here arriving at Cardiff with a cargo of sawn timber, c. 1970. This vessel was built at Lekkerkerk in the Netherlands in 1943 for the Hamburg-Amerika Linie. Seized as a war prize in May 1945, she was allocated to the Soviet union in 1946 and remained in service with the USSR's Baltic fleet until she was cut up at Ghent early in 1972.

Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.

Built 1943 as WILHELMSHAVEN by Duivendijks Sheepwerke, Lekkerkerk, for Hamburg-America Line. She was seized by MoWT at Keil in May 1945 and renamed EMPIRE DOUGLAS. 1946 – Allocated to the USSR under the Potsdam Agreement and renamed KORSUN SHEVSHENKOVSKIY (Корсүнь Шевченковкий). She was broken up at Ghent, Belgium in March 1972.