:''This is about the cruise ship. For the river cruise ship, see T. G. Shevchenko (1991).'' MS ''Taras Shevchenko'' was a

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owned by the

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. She was built in 1966 by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft,

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. She was scrapped in 2005 in

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. The ship was named after

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Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ( uk, Тарас Григорович Шевченко , pronounced without the middle name; – ), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukraine, Ukrainian p ...

History

''Taras Shevchenko'' was the third built by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft for the

. Originally she was planned as the last ship of the series, but the Soviet Union's national shipping company

Morflot The Ministry of the Maritime Fleet (Minmorflot; russian: Министерство морского флота СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union. The Merchant Maritime Fleet of the USSR is abbreviated Morflot (). All Soviet ...

decided to order two additional sisters, which made her the middle sister. She was delivered to the

on 26 April 1966 and placed on cruise traffic. Sometime during her Soviet Union career the ''Taras Shevchenko'' was rebuilt with a larger forward superstructure. In 1989 she was chartered to Jahn Reisen for a five-year period. The Soviet Union broke up during this charter, and as a result of this the ''Taras Shevchenko'' was handed over to the state of

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. Following the end of the Jahn Reisen charter in 1995, she was transferred to Blasco UK and re-flagged to

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. During the same year she was rebuilt at

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.Fakta om Fartyg: M/S Taras Shevchenko (1967)
retrieved 20. 11. 2007 In 1997 ''Taras Shevchenko'' was sold to the Ukraine-based Ocean Agencies who used her for further cruise traffic. In June 1998, when she was about to depart on a three-week cruise, the ship was arrested in

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due to the company's financial problems. In July 1998 the ship was laid up at Ilichevsk, where she remained for five years. In 2003 she was put back into service as a cruise ship by the Ukraine-based Antarktika JSC, who used her for cruises aimed at a Ukrainian cliente. This venture was not able to attract a viable charterer, and ''Taras Shevchenko'' was sold for scrap in 2004. Renamed ''Tara'',Tara
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were outbid, and "Tara" was scrapped in

in 2005.
retrieved 26. 3. 2022

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Simplon Postcards: Soviet Shipping Page 1: Soviet Built Ships
{{DEFAULTSORT:Taras Shevchenko Cruise ships Ships built in East Germany Passenger ships of the Soviet Union East Germany–Soviet Union relations Ships of Ukraine 1965 ships Ships built in Wismar Ships of Black Sea Shipping Company

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