Ex. tug of SGMP (Severnoe Gosudarstvennoe Morskoe Parokhodstvo) = Northern State Sea Shipping Company. From 07.07.1941 assigned to Northern Fleet.

On 25th August 1943 the salvage vessel �Shkval� (senior lieutenant V.S.Timofeev) sailed by Kara Sea from Novyj Port to Khabarovo. The ship provided a transfer of river ships from Pechora to Ob� river. She struck two mines simultaneously at position 69.43 N 60.33,9 E in the east part of Yugorskij Shar strait and sank. The crew were at mess when the ship exploded. 46 killed, only 5 survived.

Technical: 382 tons, 950 h.p.

Sources

1) A. Golubev "Poteri korabel'nogo sostava Severnogo Flota i grazhdanskikh vedomstv na Severnom morskom teatre v period Velikoj Otechestvennoj voiny". St. Petersburg, 1999 = "Losses of Northern Fleet ships and ships of civil companies in Arctic in years of the Great Patriotic war".

2) "Suda ministerstva morskogo flota, pogibshie v period Velikoj Otechestvennoj vojny 1941 - 1945". Moskow, 1989 = "Ships of the Ministry of Sea Fleet lost in the Great Patriotic war 1941 - 1945" Many thanks to Kirill Klementuev for the extensive information on this page.

Unless otherwise stated, all dates and times are from the German perspective and are given in CET.
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