“Georg Ots” - marine passenger-and-freight ferry of the modified Dmitry Shostakovich class (project B-492) - class Georg Ots (project B-493). Twin ships are New Imperial Star , Ocean Endeavor , Ocean Jewel of St. Petersburg , Ocean Life , Phoenix and Ocean Atlantic .
| Georg Ots | |
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| Flag |  USSR →  Estonia →  Russia |
| Named after | |
| Class and type of vessel | Ferry class Georg Ots, project B-493, [1] modified class “Dmitry Shostakovich” (project B-492) |
| Port of registry | 1980-1992: Tallinn ,  1992-2002: Tallinn ,  2002—2011: St. Petersburg ,  2011—: Vladivostok , [2] |
| IMO Number | 7625835 |
| Call sign | UDVC [3] |
| Organization | ROSMORPORT → Primorsky Krai |
| Operator | DFDS Lisco |
| Manufacturer | Stocznia Szczecińska im Adolfa Warskiego , Szczecin ,  Poland |
| Launched | 1980 |
| Commissioned | 1980 |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 10025 t [2] |
| Length | 134.00 m |
| Width | 21.02 m [2] |
| Height | 7.5 |
| Draft | 5.80 m [2] |
| Deadweight | 1327 t [2] |
| Gross tonnage | 12 549 [2] |
| Net capacity | 4 114 [2] |
| Engines | 4x Sulzer-Zgoda 6 LZ40 / 48 diesel |
| Power | 5,440 h.p. (12 800 kW) |
| Speed | 18.9 knots |
| Crew | 200 people |
| Passenger capacity | 600 passengers 368 beds 101 passenger cabin 150 cars |
| Register tonnage | 315 meters |
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Captains George Ots
- 3 In works of culture and art
- 4 Ferry Photos
- 5 notes
- 6 References
History
The keel of the ship was laid on April 23, 1979 . The launch took place on November 10, 1979 at the Schotzinskaya Shipyard in Szczecin , Poland , project B-493 and was transferred to the Estonian Shipping Company ( ESCO or the Estonian Shipping Company ), Tallinn , USSR May 25, 1980 . It was the first cargo-passenger ferry of the Dmitry Shostakovich series, built in Poland for Soviet operators. The “godmother” of the ship was the seamstress of the V. Klementi sewing factory [4] Elvi Koolmeister (Est. Elvi Koolmeister).
From 1980 to 2000, the ferry served the route Tallinn - Helsinki . In 1986, the ship was also used for Gorbachev’s trip to meet Reagan in Reykjavik .
In 1994, the ship was chartered by Tallink (a 45% stake in which at that time belonged to ESCO), while continuing to serve the Tallinn-Helsinki route.
In 2002, the ferry was sold to the Russian Federation and since 2003 it served the route Baltiysk ( Kaliningrad ) - St. Petersburg . On August 28, 2010 the ferry left in the direction of Murmansk , leaving the last one on September 10 in the direction of Anadyr , where it arrived on September 26, having traveled the entire Northern Sea Route in 15 days, becoming the first non-icebreaking passenger ship [5] to overcome the Northern Sea under the direction of captain Igor Enkov icebreaking track [6] . Leaving Anadyr on September 30, Georg Ots arrived on October 9, 2010 in Vladivostok , where he was to be used to accommodate guests of the APEC summit . For the modernization of the vessel for a hotel from the regional budget, 200 million rubles were allocated [7] [8] .
Since 2010, it was operated and modernized in the Russian Far East [9] . In August 2011, Vladivostok became a new home port. On April 28, 2012, an accident occurred at the shipyard, which resulted in a half-meter hole in the hull of the vessel and the blades of all the screws were damaged, however, the vessel was successfully prepared for the reception of guests at the APEC summit held on Russky Island from September 1 to September 8, 2012 [10] [11] .
The vessel belonged to the State Unitary Enterprise Gosnedvizhimost, in December 2012 it was leased to Tekhnomorin LLC, which in turn entered into a subboot boat contract ( chartering a vessel without a crew ) in January 2013 with the Chinese company, after which the ship went to China . In June 2014, the Acting Governor of Primorsky Krai Vladimir Miklushevsky said that the ship as a result of fraud was cut into scrap metal in China . The last time George Ots was spotted at the Asia Pacific Dockyard in the Chinese city of Zhoushan [8] [12] [13] .
Captains of George Ots
- Ülo Kollo 1980-1992 (later Technical Director, Hansatee- Tallink )
- Viktor Kala (shift captain in the 1980s, one and a half months annually)
- Valdo Heinla 1988-1992 (later Director of the South Port in Paldiski )
- Rein Erlach 1992-1997 (later captain of the ship Fantaasia )
- Ants Lohk (since 1992)
- Aivo Pitk (since 1997)
- Igor Vyacheslavovich Maralov (from 2003 to 2009)
- Igor Alekseevich Enkov (until 2010) [14]
- Andrey Bondarchuk [10]
In works of culture and art
- In the television series "Sea Devils-4"
- In the video of the Estonian band JMKE : "Tere Perestroika"
- In Aki Kaurismäki's film Shadows in Paradise
Ferry Photos
Georg Ots
Lev Tolstoy
Notes
- ↑ Georg Ots (until 2002 Georg Ots, until 1992 Georg Ots) (vene keeles)
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Russian Register Data
- ↑ Technical characteristics, current position and photos of the vessel at marinetraffic (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Databank of the National Photo Archive (est.)
- ↑ Denis Nizhegorodtsev Ice experiment. For the first time, a passenger ship passed along the Northern Sea Route. newspaper Vzglyad , October 4, 2010
- ↑ Igor Enkov: during the voyage along the Northern Sea Route, we were lucky with weather and ice conditions. The captain of the ferry Georg Ots shared his impressions of the passage across the Arctic. RIA Sever DV, 10/04/2010
- ↑ Georg Ots ferry will be used to host APEC Summit guests. Archived June 6, 2014 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ 1 2 The FSB detained a coastal businessman who stole the Georg Ots ferry in Crimea. newspaper Vzglyad , April 15, 2015
- ↑ See publications: “Transport Today”, 08/12/2010 Archived copy of October 6, 2013 on the Wayback Machine (the link indicates the wrong year of construction), “New Kaliningrad. Ru ”, Thursday, August 12, 2010
- ↑ 1 2 Reconstruction of the Georg Ots floating hotel completed in Primorsky Krai (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Piltuudis: Georg Ots on APEC-i tippkohtumiseks valmis , Postimees 14.August 2012, kell 13:56 (Est.)
- ↑ Floating hotel for the participants of the APEC summit in Vladivostok went for scrap
- ↑ Through the fault of fraudsters, the floating hotel “Georg Ots” was cut into scrap metal. June 04, 2014 // Interfax
- ↑ Ferry Georg Ots will serve faithfully in the Far East Archived copy of December 19, 2010 on the Wayback Machine