MS Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze
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.
Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze at shipyard on April 9, 1959
Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze at Kiel-Canal lock in Holtenau
 Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze on Kiel-Canal in Kiel-Holtenau | |
| History | |
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| Name: | Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze (1959–1992) |
| Owner: | 1959–1992: Far East Shipping Company |
| Operator: | 1959–1992: Far East Shipping Company |
| Port of registry: |
Vladivostok, |
| 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: |
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| Fate: | scrapped 1992[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and 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: |
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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] |
See also
References
- Григорий Орджоникидзе - Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze (in Russian)
- Fleet list of FESCO, Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze (in Russian)
- Регистровая книга морских судов СССР 1964-1965 - Register Book of Sea-going Ships of the USSR Archived 2013-11-03 at the Wayback Machine PDF, p. 241 (in Russian)
- Technical Data, Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze
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