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SOLYOM

Post by shipstamps » Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:41 pm


The hydrofoil is the SÓLYOM, and she belongs to the Meteor type and she was a serial product built on shipyards in Russia along the river Amur.
The name SÓLYOM means falcon.
Displacement 52 tons, dim. 34.4 x 6.0 x 2.3m. (draught). On foils 1.2m.
Powered by two diesel engines, 1.100 hp. maximum. Speed 66 km. maximum.
Passenger accommodation for 112 till 123 passengers.
She was in service for MAHART between 1971 till 1997, so most probably scrapped.

MARHART is now MARHART Passnave.

The traditional vessel on the stamp is the HUNYADI, details in the list.

Hungary 1981 20fo sg MS3406

Source. Navicula Watercraft Philatelyand http://www.mahartpassnave.hu

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Re: SOLYOM

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Jun 11, 2017 8:40 pm

Navicula has identified this ship as one of the Meteor type, the stamp is issued in 1972 so it must be the SÓLYOM I which was in service from 1971.
The MAHART, later the MAHART PassNave operated 3 units of the "Meteor" type since 1971: SÓLYOM I (1971-1997), SÓLYOM II (since 1990) and the SÓLYOM III /ex-WILHELM ALEXANDER from Holland/ (since 2003)
The name "Sólyom" means hawk/falcon in english.

METEOR type (Project 342, 342E and 342U)
Large-sized passenger hydrofoil
The large-sized "Meteor" type was in serial production since 1960 till 1994. The shipbuilding plants: "Krasnoje Sormovo" (N. Novgorod - Sovietunion/Russia), "Gorkij" (Zelenodolsk - Sovietunion/Russia) and Khabarovsk, along the river Amur were the main plants. Still in 2003 2 units were produced in the plant Khabarovsk for a shipping company in China. Maybe these 2 hydrofoils belong to the newer and modified type Meteor-2000.
About 29-31 units were exported, but maybe some other units were sold later to other countrys/operators.
Operators: Sovietunion, later Russia and some other successor states, China, Hungary (3), Slovakia (3), Holland, and some other countrys.

The type had 2 main engines made by Zvezda. In the most case the "Meteor" had two M400 engines, but some were equiped with two M417A. Both engine models had the same capacity of 1.000 HP (max. capacity 1.100 HP).
The top speed of a "Meteor" reaches 35,6 kns (66 km/h), the cruising speed 32 kns (60 km/h). The passenger capacity, depends on the model, was 112-123 pax. In the standard model the capacity was 123 pax (26 pax in the front hall, 46 pax in the middle passenger hall, 46 pax in the rear part of the ship, and 5 pax in a small-sized cabin).
The SÓLYOM I was in service till 1997. I could not find her fate.

Hungary 1972 1fo sg2720, scott?
http://www.mahartpassnave.hu/en/mahart/ ... ydrofoils/
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