Mikhail Kalinin-class passenger ship

MS Mikhail Kalinin in Stockholm, 1965
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
Building: 19
Planned: 19
Completed: 19
General characteristics
Type:Ocean linerCruise ship
Tonnage:1st series: 4,871 GT[2]
2nd series: 5,230 GT[2]
3rd series: 6,152 GT[2]
4th series: 5,261 GT[2]
Length:122.15 m (401 ft) overall[3]
Beam:16.00 m (52 ft)[3]
Height:7.60 m (25 ft)[3]
Draught:5.18 m (17 ft)[3]
Decks:4 passenger decks
Installed power:2 × MAN-DMR K6Z57/80 diesels,
6,192 kW (8,304 hp)
Propulsion:2 propellers
Speed:17.0 knots (31.5 km/h; 19.6 mph)[3]
Capacity:333 passengers

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.

Ocean liners/cruise ships of the project 101/Seefa 340

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 Владивосток (Приамурье, Priamurye) Vladivostok (Priamurye (ru), Priamurye)
10 Литва (transit Богучар, Fu Jian, Green Coast) Litva (Boguchar, Fu Jian, Green Coast)
11 Петропавловск Petropavlovsk
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
16Надежда Крупская (Кубань, Сусана) Nadezhda Krupskaya (Kuban, Susana)
Fourth series of Project 101/Seefa 340
17 Армения (Odessa Star, Arm) 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

Mikhail Kalinin-class passenger ships
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[8]
1958 102 Excelsior Neptune BLASCO OdessaVladivostokPanama CitySan Lorenzo 5113436 originally, the Feliks Dzerzhinskiy (until October 1988), sank at shipyard in 1993, later scrapped[9]
1959 103 Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze FESCO Vladivostok 5404677 scrapped in 1992[10]
1959 104 Image M. Uritskiy FESCO Vladivostok → Ust-Dunaysk 5215997 scrapped in 1996[11]
1959 105 Vatslav Vorovskiy MMP Murmansk 5429407 wrecked
1959 106 Excelsior Mercury SMP ArkhangelskLeningradVladivostokPanama CitySan Lorenzo 5223384 originally, the Mariya Ulyanova (until 1988); scrapped in 1993
1962 113 Sounds of Orient FESCO VladivostokPanama City 5186196 originally, the Khabarovsk, scrapped in 1989
1964 118 Image Siritara Ocean Queen BLASCO OdessaVallettaPanama CityBangkok 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

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