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SS Baikal
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SS Baikal was an ice-breaking train ferry that linked the eastern and western portions of the Trans-Siberian Railroad across Lake Baikal.
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Name | SS Baikal |
Owner | Part of the Trans-Siberian Railroad |
Ordered | 11 January [O.S. 30 December] 1896 |
Builder | Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England[1] |
Cost | £79,890 |
Yard number | 647 |
Laid down | Spring 1896 |
Launched | 29 June 1899 |
Completed | 29 June [O.S. 17 June] 1899 |
In service | 1900 |
Fate | Damaged by artillery fire in 1918 and scuttled, later dismantled |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Train ferry/icebreaker |
Tonnage | 800 GRT |
Displacement | 4,200 long tons (4,267 t) |
Length | 88.4 m (290 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 17.4 m (57 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 5.8 m (19 ft 0 in) |
Installed power | 3 × reciprocating steam engines, 3,750 hp (2,796 kW) |
Propulsion | Two aft wing propellers and one bow propeller |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
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