Engineering:MS Ivan Franko

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Aerial view of Windward Piers with the Military Sealift Command chartered vessel MEDITERRANEAN SKY (L), and the IVAN FRANKO (R). These ships were used in Jamaica for troop and Haiti - DPLA - eefcaf8cf65937ab6fb543c7c38114a7.jpeg
Ivan Franko (right) and Mediterranean Sky (left)
History
Name: Ivan Franko
Namesake: Ivan Franko
Operator: Black Sea Shipping Co., Odesa
Port of registry:
  • 1964–1992: Odesa,  Soviet Union
  • 1992–1997: Odesa,  Ukraine
  • 1997 onwards: Kingstown,  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Builder: V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany
Yard number: 125
Launched: 15 June 1963
Completed: 1964
Acquired: 14 November 1964
Maiden voyage: 1964
In service: 1964
Out of service: 21 July 1997
Identification:
Fate: Scrapped at Alang, India , in 1997
Notes: Beached for scrap on July 21, 1997
General characteristics [1]
Type:

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Cruise ship

Length: 155 m (508 ft 6 in)
Beam: 25 m (82 ft 0 in)
Draught: 7.8 m (25 ft 7 in)
Propulsion: 2 × Sulzer Werkspoor 7-cylinder diesel engines, 15,666 kW (21,008 hp)
Speed: 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Capacity: 750 passengers

MS Ivan Franko was the first Ivan Franko-class passenger ship owned by the Soviet Union's Black Sea Shipping Company. She was built in 1964 by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany. She was scrapped in 1997 at Alang, India .[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "M/S IVAN FRANKO (1964)" (in sv). faktaomfartyg.se. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. https://archive.today/20120729193023/http://www.faktaomfartyg.nu/ivan_franko_1964.htm. Retrieved 4 June 2014.