Since her beginning as a Russian supplyvessel, the ships public rooms and cabins were designed to be spacious, certainly considering the smallness of the vessel. For this, she is classed as a 100 1A Super Ice-class ship. The ship, planned to sail in northern waters, of course was designed with an ice-strengtened hull as conditions in the waters around Sakhalin required that. The ship has three sisterships, the David Pashaev (1988), Boris Pasternak (1989) and Igor Farkhutdinov (1991). The maximum speed of the ship is 14,3 knots, although her normal service speed is 12 knots. She is driven by 1 SULZER-designed dieselengine and operates with 1 controllable pitch propeller. For Oceanwide Expeditions, the ship had been rebuilt for 108 passengers and a crew that consists out of 22 nautical crew, 19 hotelstaff, eight expedition specialists and 1 doctor, totalling 50 crew. There was originally space aboard for a total of 182 persons, of whom 49 were crewmembersas well as 133 passaengers. She has six decks excluding the bridge, and three decks are used for the passengers. The ship has a tonnage of 4575, a lenght of 91,25 meters, width of 17,61 meters and a draft of 5,80 meters. The ship had been built on the Stocznia Gdynia wharf in Gdynia, Poland and was going to fly the Russian flag homeported in Korsakov. Launched at the 22nd of december in 1988, the new ship recieved the name Marina Tsvetayeva, named after the renowed Moscow-born poetess (1892-1941). Between 19 five major new oil and gasfields were discovered and so new supplyships were needed for the continuation of the business. The oilcompany had been founded in 1928 to explore and exploit the northern gas and oilfields near Sakhalin. It was decided to not rebuild the town and since then, the island is mostly uninhabited. In 1995, a 7,6 magnitude earthquake decimated Neftegorsk, the largest town on the island and 2032 of the 3176 inhabitants died. It is an island plagued by controversy, as Russia and Japan both claim possessions on the island. In 1989, the Russian company LLC-RN Sakhalinmorneftegaz introduced a new passenger and supplyvessel for the oilfields in the northern Pacific Ocean around the island of Sakhalin. Due to the Cocid-19 pandemic in 2020, Ortelius was at home at the Reinderswaal shipyard in Hansweert, The Netherlands when I saw her there at the 18th of may of that year.
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