MS Georg Ots

Ferry Georg Ots in Port of St. Petersburg
History
Name:	Georg Ots
Owner:	FGUP Rosmorport → Primorsky Krai
Port of registry:	1980–1991: Tallinn,  USSR 1991–2002: Tallinn,  Estonia 2002–2011: Saint Petersburg,  Russia 2011–2014: Vladivostok,  Russia
Builder:	Stocnia Szczecinska im Adolfa Warskiego, Szczecin, Poland
Yard number:	B 493-1/1
Laid down:	April 23, 1979
Launched:	November 10, 1979
Acquired:	May 25, 1980
Out of service:	2014
Identification:	Call sign: UDVC RS number: 790111 IMO number: 7625835 MMSI number: 273446420
Fate:	Scrapped illegally
General characteristics
Type:	Passenger/Ro-Ro Cargo Ship
Tonnage:	12,549 GT
Displacement:	1,327 t DWT
Length:	134.0 m (439 ft 8 in)
Beam:	21.02 m (69 ft 0 in)
Draught:	5.80 m (19 ft 0 in)
Installed power:	4 × Sulzer-Zgoda 6 LZ40/48 diesels combined 12800 kW
Speed:	18 knots (33.34 km/h; 20.71 mph)
Capacity:	600 passengers (as built) 392 passengers (as rebuilt 1993)

MS Georg Ots was a cargo/passenger ferry that sailed between Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia from 1980 to 2000. From 2002 it was used as a cargo/passenger ferry that sailed between St.Petersburg and Baltiysk. The ship was built for the Estonian Shipping Company. The 12,600-ton ship (length 134 meters, breadth 21 meters, draft 5,7 meters) could carry 1200 passengers, thirteen 13.6 m-long trailers or 107 passenger cars. It was named after the Estonian baritone, Georg Ots. In 2002 she was sold to the St. Petersburg Shipping Company and sailed until 2010. In 2012 the ship was rented to an unnamed company who sailed it to China and illegally sold it to be scrapped.