Engineering:MS Shota Rustaveli

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Shota Rustaveli in Sydney Harbor
History
Name:
  • 1968–2000: Shota Rustaveli
  • 2000–2003: Assedo[1]
Owner:
  • 1968–1995: Black Sea Shipping Company
  • 1995–1997: BLASCO UK
  • 1997–2000: Ocean Agencies
  • 2000–2003: Kaalbye Shipping International[1]
Port of registry:
  • 1968–1991: Odesa,  Soviet Union
  • 1991–1995: Odesa,  Ukraine
  • 1995–1997: Monrovia,  Liberia
  • 1997–2001: Odesa,  Ukraine
  • 2001–2002: Kingstown,  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[1][2][3]
  • 2002–2003: Odesa,  Ukraine[4]
Builder: Mathias Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany[1]
Yard number: 128[1]
Laid down: 11 October 1965
Launched: 29 December 1966[1]
Acquired: 30 June 1968[1]
In service: 1968[1]
Out of service: 2003[1]
Identification:
Fate: Scrapped in Alang, India, in 2003[1]
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:

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Ivan Franko-class passenger ship

Displacement: 13,010 tons[5]
Length: 175.77 m (576 ft 8 in)[1]
Beam: 23.55 m (77 ft 3 in)[1]
Draught: 8.10 m (26 ft 7 in)[1]
Depth: 13.5 m (44 ft 3 in)[5]
Installed power:
  • 2 × Sulzer-Cegielski 7RND76
  • 15,666 kW (combined)[1]
Speed: 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)[1]
Capacity: 750 passengers[1]
Crew: 347[5]

MS Shota Rustaveli was a cruise ship, built in 1968 by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany for the Soviet Union's Black Sea Shipping Company and named after the Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli. After the fall of the Soviet Union she was handed to Ukraine . In 2000, she was sold to Kaalbye Group and renamed MS Assedo. In 2003, she was scrapped at Alang, India .[1]

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