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Soviet hospital ship Armenia
The Soviet hospital ship ''Armenia'' ((ロシア語:теплоход «Армения»)) was a transport ship operated by the Soviet Union during World War II to carry both wounded soldiers and military cargo. It had originally been built as a passenger ship for operations on the Black Sea.
''Armenia'' was sunk on 7 November 1941 by German aircraft while evacuating civilians and wounded soldiers from Crimea. It has been estimated that approximately 5,000 to 7,000 people were killed during the sinking, making it one of the deadliest maritime disasters in history.
==Career==
''Armenia'', built in 1928 at Baltic Shipyards in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), was one of four ''Adzharia''-class passenger liners specifically designed for use on the Black Sea. They were the first passenger ships to be built in the newly formed Soviet Union.〔 ''Armenia'' was a fairly fast, mid-sized vessel capable of carrying 1,000 tons of cargo as well as about 550 passengers in first-, second-, and third-class accommodations. On short trips it could carry 4-500 more on deck.〔 Her shallow draft (5.5 meters) allowed access to the shallow-water ports of the Crimean Peninsula. Throughout the 1930s she and her sister ships – ''Adzharia'', ''Abkhazia'', and ''Ukraina'' – reliably ferried passengers, mail, and cargo between Black Sea ports such as Odessa, Mariupol, Sevastopol, Yalta, and Batum.
Following the invasion of the Soviet Union by German forces on 22 June 1941,〔World War II, C.L. Sulzberger, p249, American Heritage Pub. Co., 1966〕 ''Armenia'' was requisitioned by the Soviet Navy for use as a transport and hospital ship. By late October 1941 the German Wehrmacht's 11th Army, under General Erich von Manstein, had cut off the Crimean Peninsula, laying siege to Sevastopol. For the Soviets, the only way in or out of the beleaguered city was by sea.〔Battle of Sevastopol, C. Peter Chen; http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=214〕 In early November ''Armenia'', painted with the large red crosses of a hospital ship, was tasked with removing wounded Russian soldiers, medical personnel, and civilians from Sevastopol.〔'Hospital Ship ''Armenia'' Torpedoed by the Nazis', Rupert Collyer http://www.historyinanhour.com/2011/11/07/hospital-ship-armenia/〕
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