Alexandr Pushkin - Marco Polo - Cruise Ship Postcards



This page is devoted to postcards and photographs of the Soviet liner Aleksandr Pushkin, which became the Orient Lines' Marco Polo in 1992. The Aleksandr Pushkin was constructed at V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft Shipyard in East Germany and she entered service in 1966 with the Baltic Shipping Company on their regular trans-Atlantic service between Montreal and Leningrad. She became a full-time cruise ship in 1975. Between 1979-1985 Aleksandr Pushkin was chartered to Transocean Tours, after which she was transferred to the Far Eastern Shipping Company, with occasional charters to UK-based CTC. Aleksandr Pushkin was laid up in Singapore in 1990, but was bought a year later by Gerry Herrod, who had just sold his Ocean Cruise Lines to Paquet. Aleksandr Pushkin was renamed Marco Polo and began a lengthy rebuilding period. Marco Polo re-entered service with Orient Lines in 1993 on varied programme of cruises around the world. Orient Lines considered purchasing her sister Ivan Franko in 1991, but the increasing cost of the Marco Polo rebuilding deterred them. In 1998, Orient Lines was acquired by Norwegian Cruise Line, who retained the Orient Lines brand.

In June 2007 it was announced that NCL would retire Marco Polo and the Orient Lines brand in March 2008 when Marco Polo arrives in Lisbon from Rio de Janeiro. Marco Polo was chartered to Transocean Tours and operated a series of cruises from Tilbury and Dover in 2008 for the UK market. Transocean Cruises filed for bankruptcy in late 2009 and Marco Polo passed to Cruise & Maritime Voyages, continuing to run mainly from Tilbury.

Aleksandr Pushkin was the second ship of the Ivan Franko Class to be built, and the only one to survive in 2011. Her sisters were Ivan Franko (built 1964, scrapped 1997), Shota Rustaveli (built 1966, scrapped 2003), Taras Shevchenko (built 1967, scrapped 2005) and Mikhail Lermontov (built 1972, sunk 1986).

Ship Names on this Page:-
Aleksandr Pushkin - Soviet Cruise Ship 1965-1991
Marco Polo - Orient Lines 1991-2008
Marco Polo - Transocean Tours 2008-2009
2008 Transocean Tours Images
2009 Transocean Tours Images
Marco Polo - Cruise & Maritime Voyages 2010-
2010 Cruise & Maritime Images
2011 Cruise & Maritime Images

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Aleksandr Pushkin - 1977 Baltic Shipping Co (5.2 MB Adobe PDF file opens in new window)

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