Dmitriy Shostakovich-class ferry

Lev Tolstoy approaching the Port of Naples on 9 September 1988
Class overview
Builders	Stocznia Szczecinska im Adolfa Warskiego Warskiego,[2] Szczecin, Poland
Built	1980–1986[1]
Planned	7
Completed	7
Active	2
Retired	5
General characteristics
Type	Ro-pax ferry
Tonnage	9,878 GT[2] 1,445 DWT
Length	133.15 m (437 ft)[2]
Beam	21.0 m (68.9 ft)[2]
Depth	5.6 m (18.4 ft)[2]
Decks	9 total, 6 passenger decks
Installed power	4 × Sulzer-Skoda diesels[1] combined 12,800 kW[1]
Propulsion	Two fixed propellers[2]
Speed	20 knots[1]
Capacity	420 passengers[3]
Crew	167[3]

The Dmitriy Shostakovich class is a class of seven ro-pax ferries of project B-492/B-493 originally built by Stocznia Szczecinska im Adolfa Warskiego Warskiego in Szczecin, Poland and used by the Soviet shipping companies, Black Sea Shipping Company,^[1] Estonian Shipping Company,^[1] Baltic Shipping Company^[1] and Far Eastern Shipping Company,^[1] as ferries and passenger/cruise ships. The class is named after the first ship in the class , which in her turn was named after Dmitri Shostakovich.

Ship features[]

The ships have two restaurants, three bars, solarium, sauna and resting area.

Ferries of the Polish project B492/493[]

Overview[]

Year of build	Yard No	Image	Name	Built for	Owner	Operator	Port of Registry	Flag	IMO	Status
1980	492/01			BLASCO	Everis Capital Holdings	Everis Capital Holdings	Odessa → Kingstown → Odessa → Kingstown	→ → → →	7625794	originally, the Dmitriy Shostakovich, formerly: Paloma I, Paloma, Paloma I, Royale Star, scrapped in 2016
May 1980	493/01[4]		Georg Ots	ESCO	Primorskiy Region	Vladivostok Branch	Tallinn → Saint Petersburg → Vladivostok	→ →	7625835	originally built as cruise ship,[3] the Georg Ots, formerly: rebuilt to ropax ferry[3][5] Georg Ots (et), Georg Ots (ru), scrapped illegally 2012 in China.[6]
1980	492/02		Ocean Life	BLASCO	World Cruises	Blue Ocean Cruises	Odessa → Monrovia → Odessa → Kingstown → Amman → Valletta	→ → → → → →	7625809	originally, the Lev Tolstoy, formerly: Natasha, Palmira, The Jasmin, Farah, Easycruise Life
April 1982	492/03		Ocean Endeavour	FESCO			Vladivostok → Odessa → Leningrad → Saint Petersburg → Limassol → Valletta → Kotka → Majuro	→ → → → →	7625811	originally, the Konstantin Simonov, formerly: Francesca, The Iris, Kristina Katarina
December 1982	492/04			BLASCO		—	Odessa → Kingstown	→ →	7625823	originally, the Mikhail Suslov, formerly: Petr Pervyy, Ocean Empress, scrapped in Venezuela in 2013
1986	492/05			FESCO	Adalia Maritime Co.	—	Vladivostok → Phnom Penh → Piraeus → Phnom Penh → Panama City → Basseterre	→ → → → → →	7625794	originally, the Mikhail Sholokhov, formerly: Mikhail, Ugo Foscolo, Fos I, scrapped in 2011
December 1986	492/06			FESCO	Ocean Atlantic Partners		Vladivostok → Majuro	→ →	8325432	originally, the Konstantin Chernenko, Rus (ru), Rus, SC Atlantic

References[]

External links[]

• Автомобиле-пассажирские паромы типа "Дмитрий Шостакович" - Dmitriy Shostakovich-class Car/Passenger ferries (in Russian)