MARCO POLO

 

            Owner/Operator : Global Maritime / Cruise & Maritime Voyages

            Flag : Bahamas

            Homeport : Nassau

            Buildt : 1965 at Mathias Thesen Werft Wismar,Germany

            Length : 176,2 m

            Width : 23,5 m

            Depth : 8,2 m

            Brt : 20502

            Passengers : 850

 

            Ex names :

            ALEXANDR PUSHKIN ( 1965-1991 ) Baltic Shipping

            MARCO POLO ( 1991-2008 ) Orient Lines

            MARCO POLO ( 2008-2009 ) Transocean Tours

            MARCO POLO ( 2009 - 2020 ) Cruise & Maritime Voyages

       MARCO POLO ( 2020 - 2021 ) Unknow buyer - Alang,India

 

            Sister ships :

            IVAN FRANKO ( Scraped 1997 )

            SHOTA RUSTAVELI ( Scraped 2003 )

            TARAS SHEVCHENKO ( Scraped 2005 )

            MIKHAIL LERMONTOV ( Went down 1986 )

 

            11.2009 : Currently laid up in Cuxhaven after all cruises scheduled by Transocean Tours was cancelled.

            12.2009 : Get a new Cruise & Maritime Voyages logo on funnel.

            ??.2010 : Maiden voyage for the new company Cruise & Maritime Voyages.

            03.2013 : MARCO POLO touched bottom ouside of Sortland,Norway,the ship return to port. A ballast tank was leaking.

            02.2014 : One passenger died and another airlifted to hospital after a big wave hit Marco Polo under a storm in the English Channel.

            11.2014 : Run agrund in Gravdal,Lofoten when she was on the way to dock. No damage was reported.

       07.2020 : Cruise and Maritime Voyages declares bankruptcy.

       10.2020 :Sold on auction for $ 2,770,000 Projected to be scrapped.

       01.2021 : Start on her final voyage to Alang,India

         13.01.2021 : Beached in Alang,India for scraping.