Volga-class motorship
_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[1] GT |
| Length | 105.9 m (347 ft)[2] |
| Beam | 16.1 m (53 ft)[3] |
| Draught | 1.65 m (5.4 ft)[4] |
| Decks | 3 passenger decks |
| Installed power | 2 × MWM TbD 440-8 1,324 kilowatts (1,776 hp)[5] |
| Propulsion | 2[6] |
| Speed | 26.2 km/h (16.3 mph; 14.1 kn) |
| Capacity | 212 passengers |
| Crew | 77 |
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.
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]- ^ 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
- ^ 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)
- ^ 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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