Leninsky Komsomol-class cargo ship

Ravenstvo at anchor in July 1979
Class overview
Builders
Operators
Completed25
Scrapped25
General characteristics
Tonnage
  • 11,926 gross tons
  • 16,185 DWT
  • 13,270 GRT
  • 6,866 NRT
Displacement2225 т (Leninsky Komsomol)
Length169.9 m (557 ft) - 179 m (587 ft)
Beam21.8 m (72 ft) - 22.6 m (74 ft)
Draught19.73 m (64.7 ft) - 12 m (39 ft)
Depth12.9 m (42 ft) - 16 m (52 ft)
Propulsion
  • Steam turbine (gas turbine in Parizhskaya Kommuna)
  • 13000/14300 hp
Speed18.2 knots - 20.5 knots
Range12,000 miles
Capacity
  • 19,925 m³ (bale capacity)
  • 23,355 m³ (bulk capacity)
Complement35-51

The Leninsky Komsomol class (also transliterated as Leninskiy Komsomol or Leninskij Komsomol (Russian: тип Ленинский Комсомол) is a class of 25 ocean-going dry cargo ships, tweendeckers with turbine main engines, built between 1959 and 1968 in the Soviet Union under the designations Projects 567 and 567K. Twenty were built by the Kherson Shipyard, and five in either the Nikolayev Shipyard, or the Nosenko Shipyard in Nikolayev. They were part of a program to modernize the Soviet Union's merchant fleet.

Three forms of transliteration of the Russian name are used in English-language sources:

  • Leninsky Komsomol – the official registered English name of the first ship of this class, used as the name of the class of as a whole.
  • Leninskiy Komsomol – an alternative transliteration sometimes used in press or literature after 1975. It is also the official registered English name of a river vessel built after 1975.
  • Leninskij Komsomol – an alternative transliteration.

The Leninsky Komsomol-class ships were the first merchant ships of the Soviet Union to have turbine engines. They were called "turbo-runners" in news reports and by seamen.

The class was named after the lead ship, the Leninsky Komsomol. This first vessel was laid on 25 September 1957 and was handed over to Black Sea Shipping Company on 23 December 1959. The last ship in the class was named Parizhskaya Kommuna (Russian: Парижская Коммуна) which was taken into operation on 17 December 1968. This was the third largest class of ship in Black Sea Shipping Company by number of ships in the class. The Parizhskaya Kommuna was the first Soviet merchant ship with controllable pitch propeller and the largest ship with gas-turbine main engines in the world at the time of her launching.

The Leninsky Komsomol-class ships were excellent for transatlantic traffic. Their speed, manoeuvrability and seaworthiness forced foreign experts to pay attention to the design. The ships had high freeboard and, because of this, excellent stability and seaworthiness.

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