Russian River Ships - Type "Vyg" or "Onezhskiy"

Type "Vyg" or "Onezhskiy"

Ship Types / Dry Freighters

Description. Motor ships of the type VYG or ONEZHSKIY (project 10524-0121) are the mid-size dry cargo "river-sea" ships, which have a covered hold, with double boards and double bottom, with machine compartment and superstructure in the rear part, with the single propeller shaft. Ships are intended basically for carrying of general cargoes, containers and timber. The type is a further development of the construction of the ship "Onego", created for White Sea - Onega Shipping Company. Ships have big sea draught and have to be partially unloaded for passing the inland waterways.

Serial building. Since 1992 till 1995 13 units of the type "Vyg" were built. Building of the series began in Germany at the Arminius Werke shipyard, where 8 ships were built. Fore-part and cargo section for one of them were built by Weserwerft shipyard. 2 ships were built in Germany by Cassens shipyard. 3 ships were built in Russia by the russian-german joint venture Onega Arminius. Ships were assigned names after the places of Karelia Republic.

Distribution. Series of the type "Vyg" were built on order of White Sea - Onega Shipping Company for work mainly on Baltic sea with the possibility of visiting the river ports of Russia and european countries. At present time all ships of this type are in service.

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Ship listing of the type "Vyg"

Characteristics
Year of built and the name of the leading ship	1992, VYG
Mission	"river-sea" dry cargo motor ship with covered hold
Place of built	Germany, Russia
Shipyard	Arminius Werke GmbH Bodenwerder, Weserwerft GmbH Minden, Schiffswerft und Machinenfabrik Cassens GmbH Emden, Onega Arminius Shipbuilders Petrozavodsk
Sea Register class	KML4 I A3
Length / width / draught, m	81.4 / 11.4 / 4.3
Cargo-carrying capacity, tons	1600
Machine power, h.p.	1360
Speed (empty), km/h	20