Amur-class motorship
 River cruise ship Dunaj in Krems in 2002
| |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders | , Korneuburg, Austria |
| Built | 1960 |
| Planned | 2 |
| Building | 2 |
| Completed | 2 |
| Active | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 850 GT |
| Displacement | 850 t [1] |
| Length | 85.8 m (281 ft)[3] |
| Beam | 14.06 m (46.1 ft) |
| Draught | 1.55 m (5.1 ft) |
| Decks | 2 passenger decks |
| Installed power | 2 × Deutz RBV8M 545 1,766 kilowatts (2,368 hp) |
| Propulsion | 2[2] |
| Speed | 29 km/h (18 mph; 16 kn) |
| Capacity | 212 passengers |
| Crew | 56 |
Amur class is a class of Russian river passenger ships.[4] It is named after the first ship in the class, which in her turn was named after the Amur River.
Two-deck cruise ships manufactured by at their shipyard in Korneuburg, Austria in 1960. These vessels cruised the Danube regularly, as far west as Vienna, Austria.[5][better source needed] "Amur" was laid up at Budapest, Hungary and signed "for sale" in late 2011.[6]
River cruise ships of the Austrian project Q-003[]
| Amur class motorships | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Original name | English transliteration |
| 1 | Амур | Amur |
| 2 | Дунай | Dunay |
Overview[]
| Amur class | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month and year of build | Hull No | Image | Name | Operator | Port of Registry | Flag | Status |
| June 1960 | 596 |  |
Ukr-Dunayskoye-Parohodstvo | Izmail → Budapest |  →  →  |
out of service June 2012, scrapped in Komárno[7] | |
| April 1960 | 595 |  |
Ukr-Dunayskoye-Parohodstvo | Izmail | → |
No. 2-600852 (RSU) | |
See also[]
- List of river cruise ships
- Valerian Kuybyshev-class motorship
- Rossiya-class motorship (1952)
- Rossiya-class motorship (1973)
- Anton Chekhov-class motorship
- Vladimir Ilyich-class motorship
- Rodina-class motorship
- Baykal-class motorship
- Sergey Yesenin-class motorship
- Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya-class motorship
- Yerofey Khabarov-class motorship
- Dunay-class motorship
- Volga-class motorship
- Dmitriy Furmanov-class motorship
References[]
- ^ Projekt 386, Displacement and draught
- ^ Projekt Q-003 (386): Ship drawings, technical data, list and photos (PDF, Naval architect Yevgeniy Leonidovich Smirnov' Library) (in Russian)
- ^ Projekt 386, Technical data
- ^ Projekt 386 (Q-003) (in English)
- ^ letter from purser of Motor Ship AMUR to Otto Schoenberger, 1 June 1966
- ^ Eyewitness account by Jim Dobbins on 26 October 2011
- ^ Амур Archived October 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
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