“Mercator” standard design (21 built in two variants); 7,299 grt; 11,350 dwt; 368 TEU
Operator: USSR - Baltic Shipping Co, Leningrad, USSR.
Built: 1974 by VEB Warnowwerft Warnemünde, Warnemünde, German Democratic Republic. Yard no: 338.
Main engine: eight-cylinder, two-stroke DMR (Dieselmotorenwerk Rostock)-MAN K8Z 70/120E of 11,200 bhp at 140 rpm. Speed: 18.75 knots.
The ship was named after the First Secretary of the East German Socialist Unity (communist) Party from 1950 to 1971. In 1992-following the end of the communist era, the ship was renamed PRIOZERSK (in keeping with the ’P’ names of most of the other 15 “Mercators” in the Russian fleet).
1997-renamed OZERSK
2000-to breakers at Alang, India 15/12.
Photographed arriving Port of London circa 1985