The Mikhail Kalinin-class passenger ship (project 101, in Germany known as Seefa 340[4]) is a class of Soviet ocean liners and cruise ships, operated by the Baltic State Shipping Company (BGMP), Far East Shipping Company (FESCO) and Black Sea Shipping Company (ChMMP or BLASCO).[5] The 19[6] Soviet ships of this class were constructed in 1958–1964 by the East German company VEB Mathias-Thesen Werft, in Wismar. The class was named after the first ship in the class Mikhail Kalinin, which in her turn was named after the nominal head of state of Russia and later of the Soviet Union Mikhail Kalinin.
 MS Mikhail Kalinin in Stockholm, 1965
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders | VEB Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Franko-class (project 301/SeeFa 750) |
| Built | 1958–1964[1] |
| In service | 1958 |
| Planned | 19 |
| Building | 19 |
| Completed | 19 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean liner → Cruise ship |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 122.15 m (401 ft) overall[2] |
| Beam | 16.00 m (52 ft)[2] |
| Height | 7.60 m (25 ft)[2] |
| Draught | 5.18 m (17 ft)[2] |
| Decks | 4 passenger decks |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | 2 propellers |
| Speed | 17.0 knots (31.5 km/h; 19.6 mph)[2] |
| Capacity | 333 passengers |
Ocean liners/cruise ships of the project 101/Seefa 340 edit
| Mikhail Kalinin-class passenger ships | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Original name | English transliteration |
| First series of Project 101/Seefa 340 | ||
| 1 | Михаил Калинин | Mikhail Kalinin |
| 2 | Феликс Дзержинский (Exelsior Neptune) | Feliks Dzerzhinskiy (Exelsior Neptune) |
| 3 | Григорий Орджоникидзе | Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze |
| 4 | М. Урицкий | M. Uritskiy |
| 5 | Вацлав Воровский | Vatslav Vorovskiy |
| 6 | Мария Ульянова (Excelsior Mercury) | Mariya Ulyanova (Excelsior Mercury) |
| 7 | Эстония (Екатерина II) | Estoniya (Ekaterina II) |
| 8 | Латвия | Latviya (Latvia) |
| 9 | Литва (Boguchar, Fu Jian, Green Coast) | Litva (Boguchar, Fu Jian, Green Coast) |
| 10 | Петропавловск (Босфор) | Petropavlovsk (Bosfor) |
| 11 | Владивосток (Приамурье, Priamurye) | Vladivostok (Priamurye (ru), Priamurye) |
| Second series of Project 101/Seefa 340 | ||
| 12 | Туркмения | Turkmeniya |
| 13 | Хабаровск (Sounds of Orient) | Khabarovsk (Sounds of Orient)[7] |
| 14 | Николаевск | Nikolayevsk |
| 15 | Байкал | Baykal |
| Third series of Project 101/Seefa 340 | ||
| 16 | Надежда Крупская (Кубань, Susana) | Nadezhda Krupskaya (Kuban, Susana) |
| Fourth series of Project 101/Seefa 340 | ||
| 17 | Армения (Odessa Star(?), Арм) | Armeniya (Odessa Star(?), Arm) |
| 18 | Башкирия (Odessa Song, Royal Dream, Silver Star, Star, Nandini, Olviara, Ocean Princess, Siritara Ocean Queen) | Bashkiriya (Odessa Song, Royal Dream, Silver Star, Star, Nandini, Olviara, Ocean Princess, Siritara Ocean Queen) |
| 19 | Аджария | Adzhariya |
Overview edit
Since we couldn't fit information about the vessels in the class, we decided to show 8 out of the 19 vessels in the fleet.
| Mikhail Kalinin-class passenger ships | ||||||||
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| Year of build | Hull No | Image | Name | First operator | Port of Registry | Flag | IMO-No. | Status |
| 1958 | 101 | |
Mikhail Kalinin | BGMP | Leningrad |  →  |
5234917 | 1994 laid up in Murmansk, later scrapped in India[6] |
| 1958 | 102 |  |
Excelsior Neptune | BLASCO | Odessa → Vladivostok → Panama City → San Lorenzo | →  →  |
5113436 | originally, the Feliks Dzerzhinskiy (until October 1988), sank at shipyard in 1993, later scrapped[8] |
| 1959 | 103 |  |
Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze | FESCO | Vladivostok | |
5404677 | scrapped in 1992[6] |
| 1959 | 104 | Image | M. Uritskiy | FESCO | Vladivostok → Ust-Dunaysk | →  |
5215997 | scrapped in 1996[6] |
| 1959 | 105 |  |
Vatslav Vorovskiy | MMP | Murmansk | |
5429407 | wrecked |
| 1959 | 106 |  |
Excelsior Mercury | SMP | Arkhangelsk → Leningrad → Vladivostok → Panama City → San Lorenzo | → → |
5223384 | originally, the Mariya Ulyanova (until 1988); scrapped in 1993 |
| 1961 | 111 |  |
Priamurye | FESCO | Vladivostok → Saint John's | →  |
5383029 | originally, the Vladivostok (until 1967); burnt in Port of Osaka on May 18, 1988 and was consequently scrapped[9] |
| 1961 | 112 |  |
Turkmeniya | FESCO | Vladivostok | |
5371131 | scrapped in 1992 |
| 1962 | 113 |  |
Sounds of Orient | FESCO | Vladivostok → Panama City | → |
5186196 | originally, the Khabarovsk, scrapped in 1989 |
| 1962 | 115 |  |
Baykal | FESCO | Vladivostok | → |
5401352 | scrapped in 1998 |
| 1964 | 118 |  |
Siritara Ocean Queen | BLASCO | Odessa → Valletta → Panama City → Bangkok | →  → →  |
5414971 | originally, the Bashkiriya, formerly Odessa Song, Royal Dream, Silver Star, Star, * Nandini, Olviara, Ocean Princess;* capsized on the Chao Praya River in Bangkok on October 10, 2006 |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Mihail Kalinin" class (in Russian)
- ^ a b c d e Регистровая книга морских судов СССР 1964-1965 - Register Book of Sea-going Ships of the USSR Archived 2013-11-03 at the Wayback Machine PDF, p. 472 (in Russian)
- ^ a b c d Регистровая книга морских судов СССР 1964-1965 - Register Book of Sea-going Ships of the USSR Archived 2013-11-03 at the Wayback Machine PDF (in Russian)
- ^ DDR Schiffbau Archived 2013-06-15 at the Wayback Machine(in German)
- ^ Soviet Shipping, "Mikhail Kalinin" class
- ^ a b c d Cruise Travel - General Info Archived 2013-11-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ IMO 5186196 Sounds of Orient
- ^ Cruise Travel - General Info Archived 2013-11-02 at the Wayback Machine(englisch)
- ^ PRIAMURYE nameplate after the fire in Port of Osaka on May 18, 1988
External links edit
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- Тип Михаил Калинин, проект (ГДР) (in Russian)