MIKHAIL KALINNIN class

[Ship's Agent]

Dear Friends

Allow me to share with all of you, from my postcards collection, the full class postcards contemplating the 19 ships ( plus the Pryamurye ) that made this splendid class of good looking passenger- yacht looking ships, which are definetly in my opinion among the most beautiful ships ever build :-

1) MIKHAIL KALININ – 1958

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2) FELIKS DZERZHINSKIY- 1958 ( renamed later Excelcior Neptune)

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3) Grigoriji Ordzhonikidze 1959

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4) M. Uritskiy - 1959

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5) Vaclav Vorovskiy – 1959

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6) Mariya Ulyanova – 1959

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7) ESTONIA – 1960 ( renamed later Ekaterina II)


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8 ) LATVIA – 1960


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9) Litva – 1960 ( Renamed Boguchar/ Fu Jian / Green Coast )

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10) Petropavlosk – 1960

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[Henry Casciaro]

Dimas, thanks for a wonderful exhibition of postcards from this class of very attractive mini liners. They were indeed beautiful ships and most of them called regularly at Gibraltar.

Well done!
Henry.

[britanis]

she laid up a long time in bremerhaven!
this is one pictures
the other picture coming soon

at this time she looking very sad and rusty

[Nicholas Peppas]

9) Litva – 1960 ( Renamed Boguchar/ Fu Jian / Green Coast )
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Thank you for this Dimas!

It turns out that we have an ad of LITVA in Greek from July 19, 1963 advertising a trip from Piraeus to Napoli, Genova and Marseilles! On this occasion, the ship is promoted as "of supreme luxury"

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Is it now serving as a floating hotel at Luanda, Angola, or is it this terrible relic seen here? http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/...hp?lid=1048046

[Ship's Agent]

Hello Nicholas,

Sad, but it's true, it's Green Coast portrayed, the former Litva wreck you can see capsized somewhere in Luanda bay front.

Her history again:

Litva (1960) / Nr. 110 / 5035 grt
Delivered 1960 to Baltic Shipping Company, Mediterranean and Black Sea cruises. Refurbished in 1973. Used for cruises on the British and German markets until the end of the 80ies. Renamed Boguchar in 1990 and serving between Odessa and Istanbul. It was planned to rebuild the ship and rename her Odessa Dream (for Odessa Sun Ltd.) but plans were withdrawn. Renamed into Fu Jian in 1993 to cruise in the Far East. aquired by Green Coast Shipping Company from China in 2000 and renamed GREEN COAST (registry: Panama). She capsized and sank abt November 2006.

Her Angola adventure was somehow funny, she was acquired by a chinese Luanda business man, named Liu, apparently the biggest Chinese shops owner there, that had plans to convert her into a floating hotel and casino...( the fate of all ships that go to asian interests...)

However this never happened, and she was sadly on the news abt 2002 because her Chinese crew was on terrible conditions, no payments, almost starving, so they abandoned ship.

A friend told me that soon after ship was abandoned, she beceme a spot for all illegal transactions, and later became a shelter of a large number of african refugees / poor people, until she sunk in November 2006...

I hope the above information can help you...

I have some photos saved in my computer ( not postcards ) from an unknown photographer which I received some time ago via a South African friend, portraying the Green Coast in a better shape:

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Sad end for a lovely ship.

Best regards

Ship's Agent / Dimas

[Nicholas Peppas]

Το θυμαται κανεις αυτο το Σοβιετικο πλοιο; Felix Dzerjinsky
Εδω στις 23 Νοεμβριου 1960

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Ωραιες φωτογραφιες εδω http://www.geocities.jp/yappashonan/newpage52.html

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Miramar

IDNo: 5113436 Year: 1959
Name: FELIKS DZERZHINSKIY Launch Date:
Type: Passenger ship Date of completion:
Flag: RUS Keel:
Tons: 4871 Link: 1230
DWT: 1357 Yard No: 102
Length overall: 122.2 Ship Design:
LPP: 110.0 Country of build: GDR
Beam: 16.0 Builder: Mathias-Thesen
Material of build: Location of yard: Wismar
Number of screws/Mchy/ Speed(kn): 2D.17
Subsequent History: 88 EXCELSIOR NEPTUNE
Disposal Data: missing in tow - passed Hong Kong 1.93 for China

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