Dmitry Donskoy was a 5,061-ton German cargo ship which was built in 1943 as Eberhart Essberger. Taken as a British war prize in 1945, she was renamed Empire Ayr. She was allocated to the Soviet Union in 1946 and served until scrapped in 1974.
2 x SCSA diesel engines (A/B Götavarken, Gothenburg) 990 hp (740 kW)
Speed
10 knots (19 km/h)
History
Eberhart Essberger was built by Öresundsvarvet, Landskrona, and launched on 11 May 1943. She was completed on 20 January 1944.[1] She was built for J T Essberger, Hamburg.[2]Eberhart Essberger participated in Operation Hannibal in January 1945.[3] She was taken as a war prize in Kiel in May 1945 and ownership passed to the British Ministry of War Transport.[2] She operated under the management of F C Strick & Co Ltd.[4] In 1946, 'Empire Ayr' brought the first consignment of 4,000 long tons (4,100 t) of dates to reach Liverpool that year.[5] Later that year, she was allocated to the Soviet Union and renamed Dimtry Donskoy (Дмитря Донскоя).[2] She was operated by the Baltic Shipping Co, Leningrad, and served until she was scrapped in the fourth quarter of 1974.[6]
Official Number and code letters
Official Numbers were a forerunner to IMO Numbers.
^ abcMitchell, W H; Sawyer, L A (1995). The Empire Ships. London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's of London Press Ltd. pp. 443–44. ISBN1-85044-275-4.
^"1945 Januar" (in German). WLB Stuttgart. Retrieved 23 January 2008.
^"Sir B. Smith on Fat Supplies". The Times. No. 50408. London. 23 March 1946. col F, p. 4.
^"Re: Eduard Esbjerg". Warsailors. Retrieved 23 January 2008.
February 04, 2023
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