Amur-class motorship

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Dunaj (ship) in Krems.jpg
River cruise ship Dunaj in Krems in 2002
Class overview
Builders, Korneuburg, Austria
Built1960
Planned2
Building2
Completed2
Active1
General characteristics
Tonnage850 GT
Displacement850 t [1]
Length85.8 m (281 ft)[3]
Beam14.06 m (46.1 ft)
Draught1.55 m (5.1 ft)
Decks2 passenger decks
Installed power2 × Deutz RBV8M 545 1,766 kilowatts (2,368 hp)
Propulsion2[2]
Speed29 km/h (18 mph; 16 kn)
Capacity212 passengers
Crew56

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 Amur at Quay in Kiliyskoye Girlo Danube River Izmail circa July 2002.jpg Ukr-Dunayskoye-Parohodstvo IzmailBudapest Flag of the Soviet Union.svgFlag of Ukraine.svgFlag of Hungary.svg out of service June 2012, scrapped in Komárno[7]
April 1960 595 Dunay (ship, 1960) 001.jpg Ukr-Dunayskoye-Parohodstvo Izmail Flag of the Soviet Union.svgFlag of Ukraine.svg No. 2-600852 (RSU)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Projekt 386, Displacement and draught
  2. ^ Projekt Q-003 (386): Ship drawings, technical data, list and photos (PDF, Naval architect Yevgeniy Leonidovich Smirnov' Library) (in Russian)
  3. ^ Projekt 386, Technical data
  4. ^ Projekt 386 (Q-003) (in English)
  5. ^ letter from purser of Motor Ship AMUR to Otto Schoenberger, 1 June 1966
  6. ^ Eyewitness account by Jim Dobbins on 26 October 2011
  7. ^ Амур Archived October 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)


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