Re: Gollevainen's Quizz of the week (new)
Golly is right, that it's Soviet
It's prewar passenger hydrofoil cat by V.A.Gartvig. It was used in 1940 between Sochi and Sukhumi on Black Sea coast, carrying 130 passengers at 50 knots. With the beginning of war the engines were used for torpedo boats and the boat was destroyed in 1942 when Germans were near Tuapse.
Golly is right, that it's Soviet
It's prewar passenger hydrofoil cat by V.A.Gartvig. It was used in 1940 between Sochi and Sukhumi on Black Sea coast, carrying 130 passengers at 50 knots. With the beginning of war the engines were used for torpedo boats and the boat was destroyed in 1942 when Germans were near Tuapse.