MS SHOTA RUSTAVELI

IMO: 6707753

Foto - Francisco Gonçalves

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Builder: Mathias Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany

Launched: 29 December 1966

Acquired: 30 June 1968

In service: 1968

Out of service: 2003

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General characteristics (as built)

Class and type: Ivan Franko-class passenger liner

Tonnage: 19,361 GRT

5,696 metric tons deadweight (DWT)

Displacement: 13,010 tons

Length: 175.77 m (576 ft 8 in)

Beam: 23.55 m (77 ft 3 in)

Draught: 8.10 m (26 ft 7 in)

Depth: 13.5 m (44 ft 3 in)

Installed power: 2 × 7-cylilder Sulzer-Cegielski diesels,

 combined 15666 kW

Speed: 21 knots (38.89 km/h; 24.17 mph)

Capacity: 750 passengers

Crew: 347

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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 Shipping International and renamed MS Assedo. In 2003 she was scrapped at Alang, India.

Ivan Franko class passenger liners:

·Ivan Franko

 · Marco Polo

 · Taras Shevchenko

· Shota Rustaveli

· Mikhail Lermontov

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