| Picture No: | 3850 | Courtesy of: | Peter Langsdale | Year: | 1979 |
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Alexander Pushkin moored in Gothenburg
Built in East Germany in 1965, this Soviet ocean liner was purchased by Orient Lines in 1991. She was stripped down to the bare steel, and aside from the hull and engines nothing from the old Soviet era was saved. Under the skillful guidance of Danish naval architects Knud E. Hansen A/S and Greek interior designers AMK Interiors, she became the Marco Polo and transformed from a rusting Soviet-era relic into a practically new ship.
Picture Added on 27 February 2008.
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Her conversion from Aleksandr Pushkin to Marco Polo took place after being laid up in Singapore in 1990, and her inaugural voyage as Marco Polo started from Piraeus on 16 October 1993. She has a displacement of 22, 080 gt.
Added by Peter Langsdale on 09 June 2008.