Shota Rustaveli (ship)
 The Shota Rustaveli in 1968
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The Shota Rustaveli was a cruise ship owned by the Soviet Black Sea Shipping Company that entered service in 1968. The ship, which has been used as Assedo since 2000 , remained in service until 2003 and was then scrapped in India .
history
The Shota Rustaveli was launched on December 29, 1966 as the fourth of a total of five Ivan Franko class ships at the shipyard in Wismar and delivered to the Black Sea Shipping Company on June 30, 1968, to be used for cruises from then on .
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Black Sea Shipping Company and thus Shota Rustaveli became Ukrainian ownership in 1992 . After four more years in service, the ship first went to Redwood Navigation based in Liberia in 1994 and to the Ukrainian Tranship JS in 1998, but did not return to service under its old name.
After a two-year layover, the Shota Rustaveli 2000 went to Kaalbye Shipping International, based in Odessa, under the new name Assedo , which corresponds to the word "Odessa" read in the opposite direction, and under the flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines . The ship was henceforth used for cruises with Ukrainian tourists in the North and Baltic Seas .
In 2003 the Assedo was retired after three years of service for Kaalbye Shipping International and sold for scrapping in Alang , India , where it arrived on November 28, 2003.
designation
The name of the ship goes back to the Georgian poet and writer Schota Rustaveli .
literature
- Arnold Kludas: The world's great passenger ships. A documentation. Volume V: 1950–1974 , Stalling Verlag; Oldenburg, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-7979-1844-5 , p. 150.
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on midshipcentury.com (English)