Yekaterina II

Yekaterina II

Ship data flag  Russia Soviet Union   other ship names Estoniya (1960-1993) Ship type Liner , cruise ship class Mikhail Kalinin class , Project 101 / Seefa 340 Callsign UIFF home port 1960–1993: Leningrad 1993–1997: Novorossiysk Owner Baltic State Shipping Company (Russian БГМП) OOO GALS-T (Russian ООО "ГАЛС-Т") (Novorossijsk) Shipping company GALS-T Shipyard VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft , Wismar Build number 107 Launch December 1959 takeover 1960 Commissioning May 1960 Decommissioning 1997 Removal from the ship register 1997 Whereabouts Reported scrapped in 2003

Ship dimensions and crew length 122.15 m ( Lüa ) width 16.04 m Draft Max. 5.18 m measurement 4,871 → 5,330 GT 2.061 NRZ   crew 134

Machine system machine 2 × 6-cyl. MAN Diesel Machine performance 6,192 kW (8,419 hp) Top speed 17.0 kn (31 km / h)

Transport capacities Load capacity 1,371 → 1,332 dw Volume 1 loading space 505 m³ 1 cooling space 178 m³ Permitted number of passengers 350

Others Registration numbers IMO : 5109019

The Yekaterina II was a cruise ship of the shipping company GALS-T and was built in 1960 as a liner Estoniya (Russian Эстония) at the German shipyard in VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft in Wismar in the GDR for the Baltic State Maritime Company in Leningrad (Soviet Union) . It belonged to the Mikhail Kalinin class , project 101, German name Seefa 340 - sea passenger ship for 340 passengers.

description

The liner under hull number 107 with several passenger decks was built in 1960 in the GDR for the Soviet Union for the line Leningrad - Helsingfors - Copenhagen - London - Le Havre . It is one of a series of 19 Mikhail Kalinin- class ships manufactured from 1958 to 1964 .

During the Cuban Missile Crisis , the Soviet passenger ships were used as transporters under the civilian USSR flag. And while the Baltika brought part of the 51st missile division without R-12 missiles (the Omsk was responsible for that) to Cuba , the smaller Estoniya transported the entire motorized rifle regiment of Dmitri Yasov .

See also

• List of cruise lines
• Estoniya

Web links

• Images of the Estoniya
• "Mihail Kalinin" class (Russian)

Footnotes

1. ^ Estonia until December 31, 1993
2. ^ GDR shipbuilding - sea passenger ship 340 ( Memento from June 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Estonia - IMO 5109019
4. ↑ Some HRB of Russia - Единый государственный реестр юридических лиц (Russian)
5. ↑ Facta om fartyg (Swedish)
6. ^ Equasis
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} http://deckofficer.ru/titul/handbook/item/regsudov (link not available)
8. ↑ Estonija Technical Data ( Memento from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
9. ↑ Second number - Equasis
10. ↑ Facta om fartyg (Swedish)
11. ↑ Soviet fleet in the Cuban Missile Crisis (Russian)