Rodina-class motorship

The Dmitriy Pozharskiy the Rodina class Project 588 / BIFA Type A

The river cruise ships in the Rodina class, also known as Project 588 or BIFA type A ( German: inland passenger ship ) was known, river and channel common inland passenger motor ships of medium-sized design. The first series was described by the shipyard often as type V. Chkalov ( dt.-W. Chkalov ), another shipyard designation of these ships was ( inland passenger vessel type A). The Soviet and Russian crews today call the ship class simply немцы - the Germans.

Particulars

The VEB Mathias -Thesen -Werft in Wismar built in the years 1953-1961 49 units of the class of ship for the Soviet Union. The first ship of this class, V. Chkalov, named after Valery Pavlovich Chkalov the pilot, was delivered on December 26, 1953. By 1961, an additional 48 units were completed and handed over. There are two versions of the Project 588 class, called I ( 11 vessels ), and second series (38 ships), which differ in number of passengers, maximum load and internal equipment. In the Soviet Union they were used as domestic passenger traffic and tourist ships on the Volga, Kama, Don, Neva and Yenisei. For their time, they were comfortable and reliable ships with a fine stream line shape. There was no fixed system in their designation; The ships were named in the majority by Soviet or Russian celebrities or fairy tale characters, such as Ilya Muromets ( Ilya Muromets ), Cosmonaut Ju. Gagarin, IS Turgenev, Ivan Susanin, Aleksandr Nevski (Alexander Nevsky ), others have geographical names such as Ural or Elbrus. The German origin is reflected in the names of some ships like Karl Marks (Karl Marx ), Friedrich Engels, Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxembourg and Ernst Thalmann.

Technical Description

The ships with five decks of three diesel engines of the type R6DV48 driven by the motor manufacturer VEB heavy engineering " Karl Liebknecht " ( SKL ), which act directly on the three screws. Many units of the Project 588 class are still in service, some of them were shut down and only seven ships have been decommissioned. A ship sank, three were burned and another three were decommissioned and scrapped. As a result of continued fallen demand in the internal traffic passenger ( rail, air and bus services were convenient, faster and cheaper) they are now used by various shipping companies only as a tourist ships. To improve the comfort of the tourists, many ships have been modernized through renovation of the cabins and other passenger spaces, as well as the renewal of the various ship equipment by today's standards, such as drive, safety and navigation systems.

List of ships project 588 Russian and English naming

In the list of the original name of the river cruise ship is specified, the other names are in parentheses in chronological order:

River cruise ships of the project 588:

Survey

JRP - Jenisseiskoje Retschnoje Parochodstwo; WORP - Wolschskoje Objedinjonnoje Retschnoje Parochodstwo (today - Wolschskoje Parochodstwo, WP); MRP - Moskowskoje Retschnoje Parochodstwo; KRP - Kamskoje Retschnoje Parochodstwo; BORP - Belomoro - Oneschskoje Retschnoje Parochodstwo; SSRP - Severo- Sapadnoje Retschnoje Parochodstwo;