MS Mikhail Kalinin
 Ocean liner Mikhail Kalinin at Stockholm in 1965 | |
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| Name: | 1958–1994: Mikhail Kalinin |
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| Operator: | 1958–1992: Baltic State Shipping Company |
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| Builder: | VEB Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany |
| Yard number: | 101[1] |
| Laid down: | 1956[2] |
| Completed: | 1958 |
| In service: | 1958 |
| Out of service: | 1994[1] |
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| Fate: | scrapped 1994 |
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| Class & type: | Mikhail Kalinin-class ocean liner |
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| 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] |
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| Propulsion: | 2 propellers |
| Speed: | 17.0 knots (31.5 km/h; 19.6 mph)[3] |
| Capacity: | 333 passengers |
| Crew: | 134[4] |
MS Mikhail Kalinin was an ocean liner owned by the Soviet Union's Baltic State Shipping Company. She was built in 1958 by VEB Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany. The Mikhail Kalinin, named after the nominal head of state of Russia and later of the Soviet Union Mikhail Kalinin, was scrapped in 1994 in Alang, India.
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See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 Михаил Калинин (Russian)
- ↑ Лайнеры, не ставшие конкурентами Западу - т/х типа "Михаил Калинин" (Russian)
- 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. 472 (Russian)
- ↑ Mikhail Kalinin
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