MS Estonia (1960 – 1997) / Travemünde

Travemünde 1966

 

Estonia, 4,800 GRT, loa 122m, 333 passengers. Between 1958 and 1964, a series of no less than nineteen small passenger ships were built in East Germany for employment in the USSR passenger fleet. The government of the USSR frequently used these vessels for military or scientific purposes. However normally they were employed on domestic routes along the Russian coastline and in cruise service. In the seventies and eighties, Estonia (1960) was well known in Western Europe for her mostly two week cruises. Then, she quietly disappeared from the scene as she was transferred to cruising for Soviet citizens. Later, she was employed again on domestic routes under the name of Ekaterina II. She was scrapped in 1997.

 

Die Ekaterina II war ein Kreuzfahrtschiff der Reederei GALS-T und wurde 1960 als Linienschiff Estoniya (russ. Эстония) auf der deutschen Werft im VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar in Wismar in der DDR für die Baltische Staatliche Seereederei in Leningrad (Sowjetunion) [8] gebaut. Es gehört zur Mikhail Kalinin-Klasse, Projekt 101, deutsche Bezeichnung Seefa 340 – Seefahrgastschiff für 340 Passagiere.

Schiffsmaße und Besatzung

Länge

122,15 m (Lüa)

Breite 16,03 m

Tiefgang max. 5,25 m

Vermessung 5.035 BRZ

 

Besatzung 134 [7]

Maschine

Maschine 2x MAN Diesel

Maschinen-

leistung 6.192 kW (8.419 PS)

Geschwindigkeit max. 17,0 kn (31 km/h)

Transportkapazitäten

Zugelassene Passagierzahl 313 - 350

Done