Cruise ship
MS Excelsior Neptune
Operator on record: 1958–1970: Black Sea Shipping Company
Photo: Mellahn · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · file
No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.
In brief
About MS Excelsior Neptune
MS Excelsior Neptune (originally, the Feliks Dzerzhinskiy) was an ocean liner owned by the Soviet Union's Black Sea Shipping Company. She was built in 1958 by VEB Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany, as one of the Mikhail Kalinin series of ships. It was named after Felix Dzerzhinsky, a Soviet statesman and founder of the Soviet secret police (Cheka).
The Feliks Dzerzhinskiy entered regular service with the Black Sea Shipping between Odessa and Alexandria in 1958, and after 1970 she was used by the Far East Shipping between Vladivostok and Kamchatka, and from Nakhodka to Yokohama and Hong Kong. In the late 1970s she was also used by the CTC Line for Pacific Ocean cruises out of Fremantle and Sydney.
In 1988 she was renamed Excelsior Neptune, and was sold to Chinese interests in 1992. It was planned to rebuild her as a cruise ship, along with her sister ship Excelsior Mercury (formerly the Mariya Ulyanova), but she sank in January 1993 while being towed from Hong Kong to Guangzhou.
Vessel particulars
Identification and dimensions
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
- IMO number
- 5113436
- IMO check digit
- Valid
- MMSI
- Call sign
- Flag state
- —
- Port of registry
- —
- Vessel class
- —
- Status
- in service
Construction
- Type
- Cruise ship
- Builder
- Meyer Wismar
- Yard number
- Launched
- —
- Year built
- 1958
- Designed to carry
- —
- Owner
- 1958–1970: Black Sea Shipping Company
- Operator on record
- 1958–1970: Black Sea Shipping Company
Measurements
- Gross tonnage
- —
- Net tonnage
- —
- Displacement
- —
- Length overall
- 122.2 m
- Beam
- 16.0 m
- Draft
- 5.2 m
- Service speed
- —
- Passenger capacity
- 333
- Deadweight
- 1,358 t
In context
How MS Excelsior Neptune compares
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
MS Excelsior Neptune was built in 1958, making it 68 years old. It is one of 267 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 718 GT. Across the whole of the 1950s the registry holds 2,005 vessels, median 960 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 229 vessels to Meyer Wismar, with a median tonnage of 16,994 GT, delivered between 1957 and 2021. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 122.2 m overall, MS Excelsior Neptune is 76.0 m shorter than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 16.0 m and a draft of 5.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5113436 this registry holds 13 other vessels, whose median build year is 1956 and which range from 1920 to 1962. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1958.
Its IMO number, 5113436, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 1×6 + 1×5 + 3×4 + 4×3 + 3×2 = 76 — and the last digit of that total, 6, must equal the seventh digit, 6. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by IMO number
| Ship | IMO | Built |
|---|---|---|
| Miner | 5113400 | 1962 |
| MV Fenella | 5113565 | 1951 |
| Fenerbahce | 5113577 | 1953 |
| Fenja | 5113632 | 1961 |
Same yard, same years
Built alongside at Meyer Wismar
No ship class is recorded for this vessel, so these are not asserted to be sister ships — they are contemporaries from the same builder, shown because that is what the data supports.
Provenance
Where this page comes from
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from MS Excelsior Neptune on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Mellahn, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0 de.