MS Shota Rustaveli

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Yard number 128 Acquired 30 June 1968 Launched 29 December 1966 Weight 13,220 tons Draft 8.1 m		Laid down 11 October 1965 Construction started 11 October 1965 Length 176 m Displacement 11.8 million kg Builder Mathias Thesen Werft

Name 1968–2000 Shota Rustaveli2000–2003 Assedo Owner 1968–1995 Black Sea Shipping Company1995–1997 BLASCO UK1997–2000 Ocean Agencies2000–2003 Kaalbye Shipping International Port of registry 1968–1991 Odessa, Soviet Union1991–1995 Odessa, Ukraine1995–1997 Monrovia, Liberia1997–2001 Odessa, Ukraine2001–2002 Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2002–2003 Odessa, Ukraine

MS Shota Rustaveli was a cruise ship, 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, India.

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