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Topic: GEORG OTS is back in service

Nico
First Class Passenger
Member # 2123

posted 12-26-2002 05:06 PM

The passenger/car ferry GEORG OTS is back in service. Since December 27-th she will operate once a week on a ST.PETERSBURG (former LENINGRAD) – KALININGRAD (former German KONIGSBERG) route.

The ship was built in 1980 in Poland and was the first in a series of 7 identical sisterships followed by LEV TOLSTOY (ex PALMIRA, now JASMINE) DMITRIY SHOSTAKOVICH (now PALOMA I), KONSTANTIN SIMONOV (now THE IRIS), MIKHAIL SUSLOV (now PETR PERVYJ), MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV & KONSTANTIN CHERNENKO (now RUSS) finished in 1986.

GRT – 12 549
Loa - 136,8
Beam - 23,8
Draft – 5,7
Speed – 17,5 knots
Pass – 1200
Cars - 110

The ship is named after a famous Soviet singer Georg Ots (1920-1975).
From the beginning GEORG OTS was transformed to Estonian Shipping Co based in Tallinn and operated Tallinn - Helsinki route flying the USSR flag. In 1986 she was used as a floating hotel in Reykjavik (Iceland) during Gorbatchev – Reagan summit.
After the breakdown of the USSR in 1991 she continued to sail on Tallinn-Helsinki route flying the Estonian flag and changing the title from Cyrillic to English letters.
In 2001 the ship was laid up due to its unprofitability and was up for sale. Finally she was acquired for the 2 mln USD by the Ministry of Transport of Russia in November 2002. She is flying the Russian flag and the name is back in Cyrillic letters. Home port – St.Petersburg.
The price for a 45 hours journey ranges from 50 up to 200 USD depending on a cabin.

See her photo at
http://shiplover.virtualave.net/Estonia/GeorgOts.html

WELCOME ABOARD!!!

"WE NEVER KNEW WHAT FRIENDS WE HAD
UNTIL WE CAME TO LENINGRAD".

[ 12-26-2002: Message edited by: Nico ]

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flotsam'n jetsam
First Class Passenger
Member # 2712

posted 12-27-2002 01:45 PM

That's great news Niko. Although I am not familiar with her, I am with her sisters and it is nice to se her back in action. This is especially true if she still has the original chine on her. I believe all others were restructured with a chineless bow, which looks uglier.

ata.-

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