Volgo-Balt
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The river seagoing ships of the series Volgo-Balt ( Russian Волго-Балт ), sometimes also Volgobalt or Volgo- Balt , are river and canal coasters.
history
The series was produced from 1967 until the mid-1980s. The basic type was created by the Krasnoye Sormowo shipyard in Gorky , which built around 20 ships of the type from 1967 to 1970. The main part of the series was delivered by the Zavody Tazkeho Strojarstva shipyard in Komárno under the type designations MNL 2700 and RMNL 2700 (project 2-95AR). With a total of around 180 units built, the type is one of the most successful designs of its kind.
The individual ships differ, depending on the variant, due to minor differences in the size of the ship, the equipment with different engine types and other special features with which they were tailored to the respective application. The naming of Западное пароходство (Sapadnoe parachodstwo, English Western River Shipping Company ) in Kaliningrad was simple, all ships were given the name Волго-Балт (English Volgo-Balt ), followed by a number. In addition, a number of buildings of the type were built in Komárno for other shipping companies, some of which were given different names.
The ships are mainly used on combined inland and coastal services on short trips. In Northern Europe, the Volgobalts were mostly used in the Baltic Sea area, but sometimes also as far as the North Sea ports . The use was restricted by the limitation to trips with lower wind strengths and certain maximum distances to the coast. In the 1970s to 1990s in particular, in some North Sea estuaries, when the weather was bad, this often led to larger fleets of wind boats of this type.
Downfall of the Vera
A ship in the series, the Vera , built in 1977 as Geroi Tripolya (IMO 8826254) , sank on January 31, 2012 at around 7:30 p.m. off Ereğli in the Black Sea . The ship had anchored off Ereğli with a load of scrap on a voyage to Izmir in order to seek protection from bad weather. The ship began to take in water quickly due to the cargo slipping and eventually sank before helpers were on site. Of the eleven crew members (ten Ukrainians and one Georgian), only three (other source four) survived. The rest are considered missing.
technology
The ships of the series are powered by two four - stroke diesel engines . Engine models from various manufacturers were installed in the series. The ships of the Krasnoje Sormowo shipyard were each equipped with two copies of the type 6NVD48A-2U from the manufacturer VEB Schwermaschinenbau "Karl Liebknecht" with a total of 971 kW, the main part of the shipyard Zavody Tazkeho Strojarstva each received two Škoda engines of the type 6L275IIPN, the 1030 kW, later the shipyard used the equally powerful type 6L275A2 from the same manufacturer.
The hulls were assembled in sectional construction. The ships have fixed superstructures arranged far aft without a lifting bridge. The ships have four holds with 4720 m 3 grain space and four hatches . The ships were delivered without loading gear .
See also
literature
- Cheetham, Chris; Heinimann, Max: Modern River Sea Traders . Modern River Sea Traders, Teignmouth 1996, ISBN 0-9516317-2-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Freight ship "Vera" sinks off the Turkish coast , Spiegel Online, January 31, 2012.
- ↑ The Vera at shipwrecklog.com (English).
- ↑ General cargo vessel Vera sank off Eregli, Black sea , Maritime Bulletin, January 31, 2012 (English).