OCEAN ATLANTIC

IMO 8325432

Registered owner: Ocean Atlantic Partners Ltd.(Clipper Group) - USA - Beneficial owner: FleetPro Ocean Inc. - Operator: Several cq. Albatros Travel-Denmark - in winter Quark Expeditions

Entered service: 1986 - Refits: 2010/2012/2017 - Gross tonnage: 12.798 - Lower beds: 198 - All berths: 230 - Passenger decks: 6 - Length: 139,55 m.- Beam: 21,40 m. - Draught: 5,8 m. - Drive: 4 diesel engines make Zgola-Sulzer type 6LZ 40/48 total output 12.960 kW at 530 rpm. - Propulsion:2 Controllable pitch propellers at 220 rpm. - Max.speed: 17 knots - Service speed: 12 knots - Built: New Szczesin Stocznia - Poland - Yard No: 26 - Classification: Bureau Veritas (since aug.2012) ice class 1B - Flag: Bahamas

Former names: Konstantin Chernenko (1986-1989) - Rus ( 1989-2010) - SC Atlantic (2010-2012) - Ocean Atlantic (2012- until present

Sister ships: Dmitriy Shostakovich Class consist of 7 ships: Konstantin Chernenko (now Ocean Atlantic) -Mikhail Sholokov* (now Ugo Foscolo sold 11/2008 renamed “Fos 1” – scrapped June 2011) - Dmitri Shostakovich (now New Imperial Star) - Lev Tolstoy (now Ocean Life scrapped Aliaga August 2014)- Konstantin Simonov (now renamed jan.2014 as Ocean Endeavour before Kristina Katarina ) - Georg Ots* (Laid-up since Jan. 10-2013 scrapped 2013) - Mikail Suslov* ( now Ocean Jewel of St. Petersburg scrapped 2013) * Not operated as Cruiseship not mentioned on this site

Passenger space ratio all berths: 35.55

July 2012 International Shipping Partners completed the acquisition of the SC Atlantic for Ocean Atlantic Partners, an investor group it arranged, and is upgrading the vessel at a drydock in Poland.
In 2010 Atlantic was converted from a ferry with more than 400 passengers into a cruise vessel with 118 outside cabins. The conversion was done in the Far East at a cost of more than $10m. After acquired ship has been delivered in Poland where it will complete drydocking and upgrading and classification will change from Russian to Bureau Veritas.
July 2013 Charter to Areva as a windfarm accomodation ship. Charter ended summer 2014.

June 2017 OCEAN ATLANTIC Converted to Expedition Vessel The Ocean Atlantic, built in Poland in 1986 as the Konstantin Chernenko, and renamed Russ in 1988, has been reactivated after a lay up of about a year and a half at Helsingborg. She had previously operated as an accommodation ship in the Shetlands and the North Sea. Ocean Atlantic underwent conversion into an expedition ship at Gdansk in May 2017, during which the owners added twenty new Zodiacs, Zodiac cranes and landing platforms. As well, they added new Observation and Lecture Lounges, and implemented a complete interior upgrade of the passenger cabins. As an expedition ship, she is now operating on charter to Denmark’s Albatros Travel. She will then go to Quark Expeditions for the winter Antarctic season. Originally designed for 410 passengers, the Ocean Atlantic is now limited to 230 guests.

After last conversion fe. the two lifeboats in front are removed.

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