A tender-flatboat is a shallow-draft vessel with a simplified hull design. Such vessels were built during the Great Patriotic War at the Admiralty Shipyards, the Baltic Plant, and the Northern Shipyard. This was announced by the press service of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) on the eve of Victory Day.
The tender-flatboat is one of the symbols of besieged Leningrad. The ships participated in major landing operations on Ladoga and in the Gulf of Finland. They became a salvation for thousands of evacuated residents of besieged Leningrad.
Soviet designers developed the drawings for these ships in just 10 days. The main advantages of tender-flatboats were speed, maneuverability, and the ability to approach an undeveloped shore.
In the first navigation season alone on the "Road of Life" (across Lake Ladoga), self-propelled tender-flatboats made more than 10,000 voyages. The ships delivered 158,000 tons of food and ammunition to Leningrad.
They were also used for evacuation. It is noteworthy that the fascist invaders were unable to sink a single ship with provisions and people.
One of the 116 flatboats built at the Admiralty Shipyards during the war is located in the exposition of the memorial museum "Road of Life" in the village of Osinovets. It was opened on September 12, 1972, in the former bakery.
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