5,261 grt; 1,333 dwt; 350 pasengers.
Operator: USSR - Baltic Shipping Co, Leningrad, USSR.
Built 1963 by Mathias-Thesen-Werft, Wismar, East Germany. Yard no 116.
Propulsion: twin-screw with 2 x six-cylinder, two-stroke Dieselmotorenwerk Rostock-MAN K6Z 57/80C of 8,300 bhp (total) at 225 rpm. Speed: 17 knots.
1975-to Soviet Navy as personnel support ship for the Soviet Mediterranean Squadron, renamed KUBAN.
1994-sold to Bulgarian owner as floating night club, renamed SUSANA.
1998-to breakers at Aliaga, Turkey 11/2.
Photo: sailing from Tilbury Landing Stage 12/5/1968