Restored 35mm slide.
Entering Sydney Heads Australia. Photo taken mid 1980's from North Head.
Class and type: Ivan Franko-class passenger ship
Tonnage:
19,361 GRT
5,696 DWT[5]
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)[5]
Installed power:
2 × Sulzer-Cegielski 7RND76
15,666 kW
Speed: 21 knots
Capacity:750 passengers
Crew: 347
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.