MS Shota Rustaveli

Passenger ship Shota Rustaveli in Yalta in 1968
History
Name:	1968–2000: Shota Rustaveli 2000–2003: Assedo
Owner:	1968–1995: Black Sea Shipping Company 1995–1997: BLASCO UK 1997–2000: Ocean Agencies 2000–2003: Kaalbye Shipping International
Port of registry:	1968–1991: Odessa,  Soviet Union 1991–1995: Odessa,  Ukraine 1995–1997: Monrovia,  Liberia 1997–2001: Odessa,  Ukraine 2001–2002: Kingstown,  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2002–2003: Odessa,  Ukraine
Builder:	Mathias Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany
Yard number:	128
Laid down:	11 October 1965
Launched:	29 December 1966
Acquired:	30 June 1968
In service:	1968
Out of service:	2003
Identification:	Call sign: UUGF IMO number: 6707753
Fate:	Scrapped in Alang, India, in 2003
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	Ivan Franko-class passenger ship
Tonnage:	19,361 GRT 5,696 DWT
Displacement:	13,010 tons
Length:	175.77 m (576 ft 8 in)
Beam:	23.55 m (77 ft 3 in)
Draught:	8.10 m (26 ft 7 in)
Depth:	13.5 m (44 ft 3 in)
Installed power:	2 × Sulzer-Cegielski 7RND76 15,666 kW (combined)
Speed:	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Capacity:	750 passengers
Crew:	347

MS Shota Rustaveli was a cruise ship, built in 1968 by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany for the Soviet Union's Black Sea Shipping Company and named after the Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli. After the fall of the Soviet Union she was handed to Ukraine. In 2000 she was sold to Kaalbye Group and renamed MS Assedo. In 2003 she was scrapped at Alang, India.