SS Kopernik
 Kopernik as Mecklenburg, 1926
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| Builder: | F. Schichau |
| Launched: | 1903 |
| Decommissioned: | 1958 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1958 |
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| Class and type: | Train ferry |
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| Length: | 86.5 ft 8 in (26.57 m) |
| Beam: | 13 ft 3 in (4.04 m) |
| Depth: | 18 ft 7 in (5.66 m) |
| Speed: | 13.4 knots (24.8 km/h) |
SS Kopernik was a railroad ferry received by Poland in 1947 as a spoil of war from Germany. It was one of the first Polish full sea going ferries.
Originally a German passenger-rail ferry built in 1903 in shipyard F. Schichau in Elbing, it was named the Mecklenburg between 1903 and 1945.
After World War II, it was taken over by the Soviet Union, given the name Turgenev (Тургенев), and was used to repatriate Poles to the country from Germany who were forced labourers during the war.
In 1947, it was handed over to Poland for renovation, which lasted until May 1950, during which, among other things, two "tube" chimneys were replaced with one of a round shape. After its completion, she entered the service as a Waza, and then Kruszewski. In 1953 there was a short change of name to Kopernik. At that time it was operated on the line Świnoujście - Trelleborg to transport coal wagons from Poland to Sweden. In 1953, after the closure of this connection, under the name Kolejarz, it was used as a hulklight by PKP railwaymen in the port of Gdynia.
In the years 1955-1956 it was a ship of the Polish Navy and used there as a residential hulk in the war port in Oksywie. From 1956 to 1958 it was used as a floating central heating boiler room in the Remontowa.
She was broken up for scrap in 1958.
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