Other Major Disasters
    Armenia

    The Soviet ambulance transport "Armenia" carrying 5000 injured men and refugees from Sevastopol and Yalta was torpedoed by Geman torpedo bombers (He-111H of KG 26 or KG 28) South off Yalta at Coordinates latitude 44 degrees 15 minutes Nord, longitude 34 degrees 17 minutes West. It sank at 11:29. Only 3 to 8 men were rescued.

    Armenia at launch

    Armenia at Launch

    Shown above is the only available photo of "Armenia" taken before launching (Leningrad, Baltic Shipyard,) Nov. 1928

    The Steuben

    Abkhasia.

    Shown above is "Abkhasia" (1930s) of the same class as "Armenia". The "Abkhasia" also served in Black Sea during WWII as ambulance transport, and later as military transport and was sunk by bombers in Sevastopol on 10.06.1942.

    Armenia at launch

    Class ship in Sevastopol

    Photo of one of this class ships in Sevastopol in 1941/42, when Sevastopol was under siege.

  • Information above was taken from "Naval aviation of Germany 1939 - 1945. Pt.1. Torpedo Bombers" by E. A. Granovsky and M. A. Morozov, publ. in Moscow in 1996;

  • "Hospital ships" by E. A. Nikitin, publ. in St.Petersburg in 1992; "History of the domestic shipbuilding. Vol. 4" ed. by I. D. Spassky, publ. in St.Petersburg in 1996;

  • "Fleet. War. Victory" by V. D. Dotsenko. (All in Russian).


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