Taras Shevchenko (ship)
The Taras Shevchenko in Sukhumi, June 1970
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The Taras Shevchenko was a cruise ship owned by the Soviet Black Sea Shipping Company that entered service in 1967. The decommissioned in June 1998 due to financial difficulties of the owner ship lay to 2003 unused in Illichivsk , was subsequently used until November 2004 again and finally in 2005 the Indian Alang scrapped.
history
The Taras Shevchenko was built as the third ship of the Ivan Franko class under hull number 127 in the Mathias Thesen shipyard in Wismar and was launched on January 16, 1965. After the takeover by the Black Sea Shipping Company on April 26, 1967, the ship took up the cruise service from Odessa .
In 1989 the Taras Shevchenko was chartered to the German tour operator Jahn Reisen . In 1995 the ship went to Blasco UK based in Liberia and was then rebuilt in Odessa. In 1997 it changed hands again with the Odessa-based Ocean Agencies.
In June 1998 the Taras Shevchenko was arrested during a cruise in the port of Piraeus due to financial difficulties of the owner. The 532 passengers on board had to leave the ship. On July 25, the Taras Shevchenko arrived in Illichivsk (now Chornomorsk), where it was launched .
After five years of berthing, the ship was briefly put back into service in 2003 under the flag of Ukraine and used for cruises in the Black Sea , but this turned out to be not very lucrative. In November 2004 the Taras Shevchenko was decommissioned and sold for scrapping in Alang, India, where it arrived in spring 2005 under the shortened transfer name Taras .
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. 148.
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on web.itu.edu.tr (English)
- the ship on ssmaritime.com (English)