MS Georg Ots

Georg Ots in the port of Saint Petersburg on Morskoj Woksal

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS)

IMO: 7625835

Georg Ots (1980-1992 and since 2002 Russian Георг Отс ) is a ferry, now part of the Russian government and was operated during the Asia-Pacific Economic Forum in autumn 2012 as a hotel ship. It bears the name of the Estonian singer Georg Ots.

History

Georg Ots was on 23 April 1979 with the construction number B 493-1/1 on the Polish shipyard Shipyard in Szczecińska. Adolfa Warskiego in Szczecin Keel-laying. On November 10, 1979, the launch took place. The godmother of the ship was Elvi Koolmeister, an Estonian worker of V. Klementi - sewing factory. The ship is based on the manufactured 1980-1986 series of seven ships of Dmitriy Shostakovich - Class, but has been further developed and referred to as Project B -493 - Georg Ots class.

After the Georg Ots was delivered on 25 May 1980, she commuted on the Baltic Sea from 1980 to 2000 between Tallinn and Helsinki. From the beginning as Official XXII Olympiad Carrier.1986 the ship during the meeting of the Soviet state and party leader Mikhail Gorbachev with the U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik was used as a hotel.

Following the unification of the sales departments of Tallink and the Estonian Seereederei in 1992, the ship sailed under the trademark Tallink. In 1993, the Georg Ots was modernized and a deck to transport 150 vehicles rebuilt.

2002 the ship was sold to Russia, where it again to its original - gotta name - written in Cyrillic. It was used until 2010 on the track pillau - Saint Petersburg.

Trip through the Northeast Passage

In late summer 2010, the ship happened on 10 to 26 September with icebreaker support the Northeast Passage from Murmansk to Anadyr. It is the first passenger ship, which was not designed as an icebreaker, which ran through the Northeast Passage. On 9 October 2010, the Georg Ots reached Vladivostok. There, it is modernized from the Primorye for 200 million rubles ( the equivalent of about 5 million euros -2012 ) and used as a hotel ship during the Asia-Pacific Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

Incidents

On April 28, 2012, came during a shipyard stay of the ship in an accident in which a leak was and all propeller blades were damaged. The use of the ship as a hotel in the Asia-Pacific Economic Forum was provided subsequently in question.