MS Marco Polo

	MS Marco Polo in the port of Tallinn in 2012
History
Name	Aleksandr Pushkin (1965–1991); Marco Polo (1991–2021);
Namesake	Alexander Pushkin (first name); Marco Polo (second name);
Owner	1965–1985: Baltic Shipping Company; 1985–1991: Far Eastern Shipping Company; 1991–2008: Orient Lines; 2008–2021–: Story Cruise Ltd.; 2021: NKD Maritime;
Operator	1965–1979: Baltic Shipping Company; 1979–1985: Transocean Tours; 1985–1990:CTC Cruises; 1990–1993: laid up/rebuilt; 1993–2008: Orient Lines; 2008–2010: Transocean Tours; 2010–2020: Cruise & Maritime Voyages;
Port of registry	1965–1984: Leningrad, Soviet Union; 1984–1991: Vladivostok, Soviet Union; 1991–2021: Nassau, Bahamas; 2021: Zanzibar, Tanzania;
Builder	VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft, Wismar, East Germany
Yard number	126
Laid down	18 June 1963
Launched	26 April 1964
Completed	1965
Acquired	14 August 1965
In service	August 1965
Out of service	2020
Identification	Call sign: C6JZ7; IMO number: 6417097; MMSI number: 308693000;
Fate	Scrapped in Alang, India, 2021
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Ivan Franko-class passenger ship → Ocean liner
Tonnage	19,860 GRT; 22,080 GT; 5,180 DWT;
Length	176.28 m (578.35 ft)
Beam	23.55 m (77.26 ft)
Draught	8.20 m (26.90 ft)
Depth	13.50 m (44.29 ft)
Ice class	1C passenger ship
Installed power	2 × Sulzer-Cegielski 7RD76; 15,447 kW (combined);
Propulsion	Two shafts; fixed pitch propellers
Speed	20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph)
Capacity	650 passengers with berths (different sources give different figures) + 500 deck passengers
Crew	220
General characteristics (circa 2007)
Type	Cruise Ship
Tonnage	22,080 GT
Speed	19.5 knots (36.1 km/h; 22.4 mph)
Capacity	820 passengers; Previously listed as 915 passengers;
Crew	356
Notes	Otherwise same as built

MS Marco Polo was a cruise ship originally built as ocean liner Aleksandr Pushkin in 1965 by Mathias-Thesen-Werft, East Germany for the Soviet Union's Baltic Shipping Company. After major alterations and additions, the ship operated as Marco Polo for the Orient Lines from 1993 to 2008. It last sailed for UK-based Cruise & Maritime Voyages and its German subsidiary Transocean Tours. After Cruise & Maritime Voyages entered administration in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was sold at auction by CW Kellock & Co. Ltd. for US$2,770,000 on 22 October 2020; it was subsequently resold and in January 2021 was beached at Alang, India and scrapped.

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