MS Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze

Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze on Kiel-Canal in Kiel-Holtenau
History
Name: Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze (1959–1992)
Owner: 1959–1992: Far East Shipping Company
Operator: 1959–1992: Far East Shipping Company
Port of registry: Vladivostok,  Soviet Union
Builder: VEB Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany
Yard number: 103[1]
Completed: 1959
Acquired: 1959
In service: 1959[2]
Out of service: 1992[1]
Identification:
Fate: scrapped 1992[1]
General characteristics
Class & type: Mikhail Kalinin-class ocean liner
Tonnage:
Length: 122.15 m (400.75 ft)[3]
Beam: 16.00 m (52.49 ft)[3]
Height: 7.60 m (24.93 ft)[3]
Draught: 5.18 m (16.99 ft)16.00 m (52.49 ft)[3]
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
Crew: 134[4]

MS Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze was an ocean liner owned by the Soviet Union's Far East Shipping Company. She was built in 1959 by VEB Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany. She was scrapped in 1992 in Alang, India. It was named after Georgian Bolshevik and later member of the CPSU Politburo Grigory Ordzhonikidze.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Григорий Орджоникидзе - Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze (Russian)
  2. 1 2 Fleet list of FESCO, Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze (Russian)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Регистровая книга морских судов СССР 1964-1965 - Register Book of Sea-going Ships of the USSR PDF, p. 241 (Russian)
  4. ↑ Technical Data, Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze

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