MS Taras Shevchenko (1967)

This is about the cruise ship. For the river cruise ship, see T. G. Shevchenko (1991).
Taras Shevchenko at Odessa.
Career
Name: 2005: Tara[1][2]
1967–2004: Taras Shevchenko
Owner: 1967–1995: Black Sea Shipping Company
1995–1997: Blasco UK
1997–2004: Ocean Agencies
Operator: 1967–1989: Black Sea Shipping Company
1989–1994: Jahn Reisen
1995–1997: Blasco UK
1997–1998: Ocean Agencies
1998–2003: laid up
2003–2004: Antarktika JSC
Port of registry: 1967–1991: Odessa,  Soviet Union
1991–1995: Odessa,  Ukraine
1995–1997: Monrovia,  Liberia
1997–2005: unknown
2005: Moroni,  Comoros
Builder: V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany
Yard number: 127
Launched: 16 January 1964
Acquired: 26 April 1967 [3]
Out of service: November 2004
Identification: Call sign: UTVT
IMO number: 6508195
Fate: Scrapped 2005
General characteristics
Class and type:Ivan Franko-class passenger ship
Tonnage:20,027 GRT [3]
Displacement:6,000 tonnes deadweight (DWT)
Length:175.80 m (576.77 ft)
Beam:23.53 m (77.20 ft)
Draught:8.16 m (26.77 ft)[3]
Installed power:4 × Sulzer-Cegielski diesels, combined 15445 kW
Speed:20,5 knots
Capacity:750 passengers (as built)
400 passengers (as rebuilt)
714 passengers (as rebuilt)
Crew:370 [3]

MS Taras Shevchenko was a cruise ship owned by the Soviet Union's Black Sea Shipping Company. She was built in 1967 by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany. She was scrapped on 2005 in Alang, India. It was named after Ukrainian painter and poet Taras Shevchenko.

History

Taras Shevchenko was the third Ivan Franko-class passenger ship ship built by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft for the Soviet Union. Originally she was planned as the last ship of the series, but the Soviet Union's national shipping company Morflot decided to order two additional sisters, which made her the middle sister.[4] She was delivered to the Black Sea Shipping Company on 26 April 1967 and placed on cruise traffic.[5] Sometime during her Soviet Union career the Taras Shevchenko was rebuilt with a larger forward superstructure.[6][7] In 1989 she was chartered to Jahn Reisen for a five-year period. The Soviet Union broke up during this charter, and as a result of this the Taras Shevchenko was handed over to the state of Ukraine. Following the end of the Jahn Reisen charter in 1995, she was transferred to Blasco UK and re-flagged to Monrovia, Liberia. During the same year she was rebuilt at Odessa.[5]

In 1997 Taras Shevchenko was sold to the Ukraine-based Ocean Agencies who used her for further cruise traffic. In June 1998, when she was about to depart on a three-week cruise, the ship was arrested in Piraeus, Greece due to the company's financial problems. In July 1998 the ship was laid up at Ilichevsk, where she remained for five years.[5] In 2003 she was put back into service as a cruise ship by the Ukraine-based Antarktika JSC, who used her for cruises aimed at a Ukrainian cliente. This venture was not successful, and Taras Shevchenko was sold for scrap in 2004.[5] Renamed Tara,[1][2] the ship scrapped in India, in 2005.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tara
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Equasis (since 01-01-2005)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Ward, Douglas (1995). Berlitz Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships. Oxford: Berlitz. ISBN 2-8315-1327-8.
  4. ↑ Cruisepage.com ship profiles: Marco Polo, retrieved 20. 11. 2007
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 (Swedish) Fakta om Fartyg: M/S Taras Shevchenko (1967), retrieved 20. 11. 2007
  6. ↑ (Swedish) Fakta om Fartyg: Postcard of Taras Schenchenko in original configuration, retrieved 22. 11. 2007
  7. ↑ (Swedish) Fakta om Fartyg: Taras Schenchenko Pireus 1985, showing larger superstructure, retrieved 22. 11. 2007

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