| ID: | 1082 | Name: | Albatros |
| Inserted: | 16.10.2012 | ||
| Country of origin: | Estonia | ||
| Date: | 20th century | Construction Year: | 1952 |
| Sinking time: | 1959 | Propulsion: | motor sailer |
| Address: | Inland sea, Soome laht, Tallinna laht | ||
| Purpose: | merchant ship | ||
| Vessel type: | schooner | ||
| History: | Albatros (ex Iskra) was one of the many fore-and-aft schooners that the Finnish shipyards built for the Soviet Union in the post war years in order to compensate for war damages (one of the so called sotakorvauskuunari). | ||
| Cargo: | empty | ||
| Story of Sinking: | The ship was deliberately sank in the mouth of Pirita River in 1959. The hull of the written-off ship was sank during the construction of the Pirita Yachting Harbour pier with the purpose of using it as filling to the pier. The exact location is not known. | ||
| Object Data: | 330 brt, length 44,91 meters, width 8,75 meters. | ||
| Maerial: | wood | ||
| Description of Location: | Pirita River, under the right-side pier of the Yachting Harbour. | ||
| Resource Links & Literature: | Nordmann, A. 1999. Sotakorvauskuunaritest ja nende saatustest. - Mereteedelt, Tallinn, 69-85. | ||