Ivan Franko class
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The Ivan Franko class , also written Iwan Franko class according to the German transcription of the Cyrillic alphabet in GDR publications in particular , is a series of five passenger and cruise ships of the Mathias Thesen shipyard in Wismar , which operated between 1963 and 1972 were built for the USSR . The series was also referred to as the writer class.
history
The construction of a series of larger passenger ships was unique in passenger shipbuilding in the 1960s. These were the largest new shipbuilding buildings in the GDR up to that point and the first larger passenger ships to be built in both German states after the Second World War . Three ships went to the Soviet Black Sea shipping company, two to the Ostseederei (Baltic shipping company). From 1972 the ships were modernized. In particular, the interior of the passenger areas was renewed in the Russian, Ukrainian and Georgian styles. From 1991 the ships were gradually taken out of service. As the last ship in the series, the Aleksandr Pushkin is sailing as Marco Polo .
List of ships Project 301 / SeeFa 750
Seafaring ships of project 301 / SeeFa 750:
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Ivan Franko
The type ship Ivan Franko ( Russian Иван Франко ), named after the Ukrainian writer Iwan Franko , was delivered to the Black Sea Shipping Co. (Blasco) on October 7, 1964 . It has been modernized several times and was used in the international cruise service. In 1997 the ship was sold to the shipping company Pollux Shipping in Kingstown on St. Vincent and the ship was renamed Frank . On July 21, 1997, the ship arrived in Alang, India for demolition.
In the DEFA film My Girlfriend Sybille , released in 1967, the ship is used as the setting.
Aleksandr Pushkin
The Aleksandr Pushkin ( Russian Александр Пушкин ), named after Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin , was delivered to the Soviet Baltic Shipping Co. (German: Baltic Shipping Company) based in Leningrad on August 14, 1965 . After many years of service as a cruise ship and between Leningrad and Montreal , she was registered in 1985 for the Soviet Far Eastern shipping company Far Eastern Shipping Co. in Vladivostok and chartered to CTC Cruises from Sydney . After 1990 in Singapore rested , it was & the Shipping General (Orient Lines) from 1991 Nassau sold. Renamed Marco Polo , she was rebuilt at the Neorion shipyard in Syros . The transport capacity was increased to 850 cabin passengers. Since 1993 she has been back in service in the cruise line.
Taras Shevchenko
The Taras Shevchenko ( Russian Тарас Шевченко ), named after Taras Shevchenko , was delivered to the Soviet Black Sea shipping company on April 26, 1967 and used by them in cruise service. After being chartered to Jahn Reisen for five years in 1989 , it came into Ukrainian possession. In 1995 it was rebuilt in Odessa and in 1997 sold to the Odessa Ocean Agencies. Due to financial problems of the shipping company, it was fixed in the port of Piraeus in June 1998 . The following month it was launched in Illichivsk (now Chornomorsk). In 2004 it was sold for scrapping. At the beginning of 2005 she was brought to Alang under the name Taras .
Shota Rustaveli
The Shota Rustaveli ( Russian Шота Руставели ), named after Schota Rustaveli , was delivered to the Soviet Black Sea shipping company on June 30, 1968 and used in cruise service. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it came into Ukrainian possession. In 2000 it was sold to Kaalbye Shipping International of Kingstown, St Vincent, and renamed Assedo . In November 2003 she was transferred to Alang for demolition.
Mikhail Lermontov
The Mikhail Lermontov ( Russian Михаил Лермонтов ), named after Mikhail Jurjewitsch Lermontow , was delivered to the Soviet Baltic shipping company on March 18, 1972. It was used in the cruise and passenger liner service from Bremerhaven to the Canary Islands , to Montreal and New York City . After the American President Ronald Reagan banned Soviet ships from docking in US ports in 1980, voyages to New York were suspended. In 1982 the ship was overhauled and converted at Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven . In the morning hours of February 16, 1986, the Mikhail Lermontov leaked near Cape Jackson (New Zealand) . The 405 passengers were taken over by other ships. The attempt to put the ship on the beach failed. At 10:45 p.m. the Mikhail Lermontov sank , killing one crew member. The wreck lying on the starboard side at a depth of 30 meters is a magnet for scuba divers .
technology
The ships have three continuous and two partial decks , as well as promenade, saloon, boat, sun and bridge deck. Three cargo holds and a garage, which are served by cranes with 3.2 and 1.6 t load capacities, together have a volume of 2,600 m³.
At the time of commissioning, 22 single, 302 twin and 312 four-bed cabins were available for 750 passengers, as well as four luxury cabins for six people and four cabins for mothers with children with 16 seats. The ships were also set up to carry 550 deck passengers. The total crew consisted of 347 men.
Two marine diesel engines from the Ciegielski works in Poznan of type 7 RD 76 ( Sulzer license ) with 7,723 kW each, which act on two fixed propellers, were installed as propulsion . The radius of action was given as 8,000 nautical miles and the speed as 20 knots.
literature
- Alfred Dudszus, Alfred Köpcke: The big book of ship types. Steam ships, motor ships, marine technology from the beginnings of machine-driven ships to the present day. transpress Pietsch, Berlin / Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-344-00374-7 , pp. 163-164.
- Arnold Kludas: The world's great passenger ships. A documentation. Volume V: 1950–1974 , Stalling Verlag; Oldenburg, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-7979-1844-5 , pp. 148-150.
Web links
- "Ivan Franko" class. Retrieved October 17, 2009 (Russian).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Регистровая книга морских судов СССР 1964-1965 - Register Book of Sea-going Ships of the USSR ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian), available as PDF, 1,198 pages
- ↑ Winfried Asendorpf: The pilot left the sinking ship . In: " Hansa " Schiffahrt international , issue 11/1989, Schiffahrtsverlag "Hansa", Hamburg 1989, p. 450.
- ↑ Тип Иван Франко, проект (ГДР) ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ivan Franko. (No longer available online.) In: The Soviet Fleet. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007 ; Retrieved October 17, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ M / S Ivan Franko. In: Facta om Fartyg. Retrieved October 17, 2009 (Swedish).
- ↑ Aleksandr Pushkin. (No longer available online.) In: The Soviet Fleet. Archived from the original on May 17, 2008 ; Retrieved October 17, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ M / S Aleksandr Pushkin. In: Facta om Fartyg. Retrieved October 17, 2009 (Swedish).
- ↑ Taras Shevchenko. (No longer available online.) In: The Soviet Fleet. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007 ; Retrieved October 17, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ M / S Taras Shevchenko. In: Facta om Fartyg. Retrieved October 17, 2009 (Swedish).
- ↑ Shota Rustaveli. (No longer available online.) In: The Soviet Fleet. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007 ; Retrieved October 17, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ M / S Shota Rustaveli. In: Facta om Fartyg. Retrieved October 17, 2009 (Swedish).
- ↑ Mihail Lermontov. (No longer available online.) In: The Soviet Fleet. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007 ; Retrieved October 17, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ M / S Mikhail Lermontov. In: Facta om Fartyg. Retrieved October 17, 2009 (Swedish).
- ^ The Last Cruise of the Mikhail Lermontov. In: The New Zealand Maritime Record. Retrieved March 15, 2017 (English).
