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LOI
Building contract
Building started
Keel laid
17/7/1981Launch
Sea trial
Second sea trial
30/12/1982Delivered to Black Sea Shipping, Odessa, Soviet Union
1/1983New name Mikhail Suslov
1/1983Operate Crime and Caspian area. Some times cruises around Europe.
1989New name Pyotr Pervyy.
19/3-2/6/1989Rebuild to cruise ship and eye clinic by Lloyd Werft , Bremerhaven.
4/7/1989Operated by Phlox.
1989-4/1990Used as eye clinic at UAE.
1990-1/1991Used as eye clinic at Larnaca, Cyprus. Phlox service ended.
8/1991Ukrainian flag. Used as cruise ship.
2/1993Used again as a eye clinic. First at Gibraltar.
10/1995Charter to Parkdale Int. Inc. , USA.
1997Laid up.
12/1997Arrested in Jebel Ali, UAE.
3/1998Sold to Sovereign maritime inc. St Vincent and the Grenadines flag. New name Petr Pervyy.
8/2/2000Released from arrest.
5/2002New name Ocean Empress.
3/2003Sold to Titan Cruise Lines.
2003Rebuild to casino ship.
2004Casino cruises from St Petersburg, FL
8/2005Titan Cruise Lines went to bankrupt.
5/6/2006Sold to Miami Oceans Intl, Ltd, Kingstown
2013?Scrapped in Venezuela?