For other ships with the same name, see SS Shota Rustavelli.
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
Call sign: UUGF
IMO number: 6707753
Fate
Scrapped in Alang, India, in 2003[1]
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type
Ivan Franko-class passenger ship
Tonnage
19,361 GRT
5,696 DWT[5]
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
15,666kW (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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