MS Ivan Franko
,_and_the_IVAN_FRANKO_(R)._These_ships_were_used_in_Jamaica_for_troop_and_Haiti_-_DPLA_-_eefcaf8cf65937ab6fb543c7c38114a7.jpeg) Ivan Franko (right) and Mediterranean Sky (left)
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| History | |
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| Name | Ivan Franko |
| Namesake | Ivan Franko |
| Operator | Black Sea Shipping Co., Odesa |
| Port of registry |
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| Builder | V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany |
| Yard number | 125 |
| Launched | 15 June 1963 |
| Completed | 1964 |
| Acquired | 14 November 1964 |
| Maiden voyage | 1964 |
| In service | 1964 |
| Out of service | 21 July 1997 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped at Alang, India, in 1997 |
| Notes | Beached for scrap on July 21, 1997 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Type | Cruise ship |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 155 m (508 ft 6 in) |
| Beam | 25 m (82 ft 0 in) |
| Draught | 7.8 m (25 ft 7 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 × Sulzer Werkspoor 7-cylinder diesel engines, 15,666 kW (21,008 hp) |
| Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Capacity | 750 passengers |
MS Ivan Franko was the first Ivan Franko-class passenger ship owned by the Soviet Union's Black Sea Shipping Company. She was built in 1964 by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany. She was scrapped in 1997 at Alang, India.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "M/S IVAN FRANKO (1964)". faktaomfartyg.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
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