Capture of the Tuapse

History
Soviet Union
NameTuapse (Russian: Туапсе)
OwnerBlack Sea Shipping Company
Port of registryOdessa,  Soviet Union
BuilderBurmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark
Launched1953
FateCaptured by the ROC Navy in 1954
Republic of China
NameROCS Kuaiji, AOG-306 (會稽)
Acquired23 June 1954
Commissioned20 October 1955
Decommissioned1 October 1965
General characteristics
Class and typeApsheron-class, oil tanker
Tonnage13,200 DWT
Displacement18,000 t (17,716 long tons)
Length149.14 m (489 ft 4 in)
Beam19.16 m (62 ft 10 in)
Draft8.36 m (27.4 ft)
Propulsion6DKR 74/160, 5,530 shp (4,120 kW)
Speed14.5 knots (16.7 mph; 26.9 km/h)
Range7 knots (8.1 mph; 13 km/h)
Complement49
ArmamentNone

The capture of the tanker Tuapse occurred on 23 June 1954, when a civilian Soviet ship was captured and confiscated by the Republic of China Navy in the high seas near the Philippines and the sailors were detained in Taiwan for various periods with three deaths, until the last four were released in 1988.[1][2]

  1. ^ Lin, Hung-i (2008). "Chapter 1" (PDF). <封鎖大陸沿海──中華民國政府的「關閉政策」, 1949-1960> [Blockading the China coast: the "port-closure policy" of ROC government, 1949-1960] (M.D. thesis) (in Chinese (Taiwan)). National Chengchi University. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Taiwanese Society Under Martial Law Remembered". Taipei Times. 15 July 2007. Archived from the original on 9 November 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2011.