Ref Number: 86
Boris SS was lost in collision near Savastopol with the Roumanian monitor Ion C. Bratianu on the 9th November 1920.
Ref Number: 86
SS The Boris was an early Bulgarian commerce ship that transported both passengers and freight. She was constructed in the United Kingdom by Wigham Richardson, Wallsend, and put into service on May 21st, 1894. Boris sailed into the Bay of Varna on July 2, 1894, at 9:30 a.m.
It is presumed that she regularly transported passengers as well as raw cotton into the textile mill Prince Boris Cotton Factory in Varna harbour and completed goods out to Constantinople and beyond.
The first few years of the vessel’s existence were spent making trips between Bulgarian ports and Constantinople. Anchored against the Prince Boris Cotton Factory on the shores of Lake Varna on September 21, 1915, were the ships Cyril, Boris, Bulgaria, Varna, and Tsar Ferdinand.
During the 1920 evacuation of the last Bulgarian forces from the Crimea, the ship is believed to have been damaged by the Russian steamer Kronstadt near Sevastopol. The Russian side reached a guilty verdict against Kronstadt skipper Sakharov.
As a result, Russia proposed the Yalta as a suitable substitute for the Boris.
However, the Lloyd’s registry indicates that the Romanian monitor Ion C. Bratianu was to blame for the disaster on November 9, 1920.
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