Ocean Endeavor

Ocean Endeavor

The ship as Kristina Katarina in the south harbor of Helsinki

Ship data flag  Soviet Union Russia (1995–1996) Cyprus (1996–2009) Malta (2009–2010) Finland (2010–2014) Marshall Islands (2014–2015) Bahamas (since 2015)             other ship names Kristina Katarina (2010-2014) The Iris (2000-2010) Francesca (1996-2000) Konstantin Simonov (1982-1996) Ship type Ferry → cruise ship (since 2004) class Dmitriy Shostakovich Callsign C6CA6 home port Nassau Owner Endeavor Partners Shipping company Fleetpro Ocean Shipyard Stocnia Szczecinska in Adolfa Warskiego , Stettin , People's Republic of Poland Build number B 492/03 Launch April 17, 1981 takeover April 1982 Commissioning 1982 Whereabouts in service

Ship dimensions and crew length 137.61 m ( Lüa ) width 21.01 m Draft Max. 5.6 m measurement 12,779 GT   crew 90-100

Machine system machine diesel-mechanical 4 × diesel engine ( Sulzer-Zgoda 6 LZ40 / 48) Machine performance 12,779 kW (17,375 hp) Top speed 20 kn (37 km / h) propeller 2 × controllable pitch propellers

Transport capacities Load capacity 1646 dw Permitted number of passengers 380 Vehicle capacity 14 cars

Others Classifications Bureau Veritas Registration numbers IMO : 7625811

The Ocean Endeavor is a cruise ship. She was put into service in 1982 as the Konstantin Simonov ferry by the then Soviet Far East shipping company. Since then, the ship has been named Francesca , The Iris and most recently Kristina Katarina from 2010 to 2014 , when it was used by the Finnish Kristina Cruises .

The sister ships are Dmitriy Shostakovich , Georg Ots , Mikhail Suslov , Lev Tolstoy , Mikhail Sholokhov and Konstantin Chernenko .

history

Konstantin Simonov

The ship with the hull number B 492/03 was launched on April 17, 1981 at the Polish shipyard Stocnia Szczecinska in Adolfa Warskiego in Stettin . It belongs to the series of seven ships of the Dmitriy Shostakovich class manufactured from 1980 to 1986 .

The ship was named after the writer Konstantin Simonow . After the Konstantin Simonov was delivered in April 1982, the crew from the Far East came on board and began her maiden voyage from Riga to Cuba . On the way back, the ferry was directed to Odessa , where it remained according to the order of the Ministry of Naval Fleet of the USSR on August 10, 1982. The ship was operated as a cruise ship for Soviet and foreign tourists on the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and for "trips around Europe" on the Baltic Sea. After the sinking of Mikhail Lermontov of the Leningrad Baltic Sea shipping company, it had replacement needs, so on January 9, 1987 the Konstantin Simonov was handed over to the Baltic Sea shipping company.

1987–1988 the ship was modernized at the Lloyd shipyard in Bremerhaven and used on the Leningrad - Helsinki - Saint Petersburg route. Under the leadership of the new Russian capitalists (Russian: "новые русские"), the Baltic shipping company went bankrupt, and in May 1996 the ship was locked up in Kiel to cover liabilities to the Cypriot Pakartin Shipping Co. Ltd. sold and given the name Francesca . From 2000, the ship under the Maltese flag was sailing the Mediterranean Sea as The Iris for the Israeli Mano Cruise .

Kristina Katarina

On December 11, 2009, the Finnish company Kristina Cruises bought the 1A ice-reinforced ship to replace their Kristina Regina , built in 1960 . Since February 24, 2010 the home port of the ship is Kotka , and the Kristina Katarina was from the Almaco Group in Kotka and Naantali

Cruise ship Ocean Endeavor departing from Hamburg in June 2015

modernized, with all 193 cabins, stairwells, conference hall, restaurant etc. being refurbished.

From August 31, 2010 the first cruise to the Mediterranean took place. On October 5th, 2010 the Kristina Katarina visited her former home port of Odessa . In May 2012 it was first used in the Mediterranean, later in the Baltic Sea region as well as the Norwegian fjords and Svalbard.

Ocean Endeavor

On January 8, 2014, the ship was sold to international investors and renamed Ocean Endeavor .

See also

• List of cruise lines

Web links

Commons : Ocean Endeavor  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Tervetuloa Kristina Katarinalle! (Finnish and English)
• Kristina Katarina (до 08.2010 The Iris, до 09.2000 Francesca, до 11.1996 Константин Симонов) (Russian)
• Konstantin Simonov (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Mikke Asklander: Technical data of the "Konstantin Simonov" from 1982. Retrieved on May 25, 2012 . 
2. ↑ M / S Kristina Katarina - Tervetuloa Kristina Katarinalle! ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English and Finnish) 
3. ↑ Facta om fartyg (Swedish)
4. ↑ Второе пришествие Константина Симонова Аркадий Гринберг. Моряк Украины № 24. 2002 г. (Russian)
5. ↑ MF Konstantin Simonov Black Sea Shipping Company (BLASCO) Soviet Union (English)
6. ↑ Looters from the Black Sea Shipping Company ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian) 
7. ↑ Kristina Katarina at Morvoksal in Odessa on October 5, 2010
8. ↑ Kristina Cruises lays off 150, sells ship