m/s "Pilica" - the Polish dry cargo motor ship

Type B-51 - the first small dry cargo ships, built in Polish shipyards. The project of a 650-ton dry cargo ship was purchased from the Italian company "Ansaldo". The first ship in this series was "Dunajec", whose keel was laid on September 30, 1949 and by the end of 1949 the construction of four more ships of this type began (“San”, “Nysa”, “Pilica” and “Odra”). "Pilica" was completed on 31.04.1950 at the Gdańsk shipyard and was the first to be launched. It was handed over to the Paris Commune shipyard in Gdynia for equipment installation, but “Pilica” was the penultimate of the five to enter the service. Due to the developing trade of Poland with foreign countries (especially from the socialist bloc), the Polish Maritime Administration launched a new trade line to northern Scandinavia. The route Szczecin - Malmö - Gothenburg - Copenhagen - Gdynia - Szczecin was commissioned to serve the motor ship "Pilica", which sailed on its first voyage on October 26, 1954. In 1974 the dry cargo, along with two other ships in the series, was sold to a Bangladeshi firm and sailed to a new destination around Africa. Her further fate is unknown.

A small, well-designed and richly detailed model of a dry cargo ship of medium complexity for the intermediate to advanced modeler. There is even control cabin equipment, the ability to make any model of the five ships in the series - there are side and stern details for all ships.