The Volga class is a class of Russian river passenger ships.[7] It is named after the first ship in the class Volga, which in her turn was named after Volga River.
_ENI_4200004_001.jpg) River cruise ship Dnipro at pier in Bratislava in 2011
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders | Österreichische Schiffswerften AG, Korneuburg, Austria |
| Built | 1970 |
| In service | 1970 |
| Planned | 2 |
| Building | 2 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Active | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 2,125[5] GT |
| Length | 105.9 m (347 ft)[3] |
| Beam | 16.1 m (53 ft)[4] |
| Draught | 1.65 m (5.4 ft)[1] |
| Decks | 3 passenger decks |
| Installed power | 2 × MWM TbD 440-8 1,324 kilowatts (1,776 hp)[6] |
| Propulsion | 2[2] |
| Speed | 26.2 km/h (16.3 mph; 14.1 kn) |
| Capacity | 212 passengers |
| Crew | 77 |
Three deck cruise ships built by Österreichische Schiffswerften AG at their shipyard in Korneuburg, Austria in 1970.[8]
River cruise ships of the Austrian project Q-031 edit
| Volga-class motorships | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Original name | English transliteration |
| 1 | Волга[9] | Volga |
| 2 | Днепр (Дніпро)[10] | Dnepr (Dnipro) |
Overview edit
| Volga class | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month and year of build | Hull No | Image | Name | Owner | Port of Registry | Flag | Status |
| 1970 | K687 | _001.jpg){kind=small} |
Volga | Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company[11] | Izmail |  →  |
RSU 2-601784[12][13] ENI 42000003 |
| 1970 | K688 | |
Dnipro | Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company | Izmail | → |
RSU 2-601783[14][15] ENI 42000004 |
See also edit
- List of river cruise ships
- Valerian Kuybyshev-class motorship
- Rossiya-class motorship (1952)
- Rossiya-class motorship (1973)
- Anton Chekhov-class motorship
- Vladimir Ilyich-class motorship
- Rodina-class motorship
- Baykal-class motorship
- Sergey Yesenin-class motorship
- Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya-class motorship
- Yerofey Khabarov-class motorship
- Dunay-class motorship
- Amur-class motorship
- Dmitriy Furmanov-class motorship
References edit
- ^ Project Q-031, Technical data
- ^ Projekt Q-031: Ship drawings, technical data, list and photos (PDF, Naval architect Yevgeniy Leonidovich Smirnov' Library) (in Russian)
- ^ Project Q-031, Technical data
- ^ Project Q-031, Technical data
- ^ Projekt Q-031: Ship drawings, technical data, list and photos (PDF, Naval architect Yevgeniy Leonidovich Smirnov' Library) (in Russian)
- ^ Project Q-031, Technical data
- ^ Long voyage passenger ships (in Russian)
- ^ Specifications
- ^ Shipping Register of Ukraine, Vessel 2-601784 Archived 2013-11-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian and English)
- ^ Shipping Register of Ukraine, Vessel 2-601783 Archived 2013-11-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian and English)
- ^ Passenger Fleet
- ^ Shipping Register of Ukraine, Vessel 2-601784 Archived 2013-11-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian and English)
- ^ Volga (in Russian)
- ^ Shipping Register of Ukraine, Vessel 2-601783 Archived 2013-11-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Ukrainian and English)
- ^ Дніпро (ранее Днепр) (in Russian)
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