Taras Shevchenko (ship)

**Taras Shevchenko**
	The Taras Shevchenko in Sukhumi, June 1970
Ship data
flag	Soviet Union
other ship names	Taras (2005)
Ship type	Cruise ship
class	Ivan Franko class
home port	Odessa
Shipping company	Black Sea Shipping Company
Shipyard	Mathias-Thesen-Werft , Wismar
Build number	127
Launch	January 16, 1965
takeover	April 26, 1967
Decommissioning	November 2004
Whereabouts	Scrapped in India in 2005
Ship dimensions and crew
length	175.8 m ( Lüa )
width	23.53 m
Draft	Max. 8 m
measurement	19,549 GRT
crew	370
Machine system
machine	2 × Sulzer Cegielski diesel engines
Machine ; performance	15,445 kW (20,999 hp)
Top ; speed	20.5 kn (38 km / h)
propeller	2 ×
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers	750
Others
Registration ; numbers	IMO no. 6508195

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

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