MS Enchanted Capri
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = Azerbaidjan IMO 7359474 P Corfu 09-1981.jpg | Ship caption = Azerbaidjan in Corfu, September 1981 }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship name = *Enchanted Capri: 1998–2020{{Cite web|url=https://www.vanguardiaveracruz.mx/desguazaran-el-flotel-enchanteo-capri-en-coatzacoalcos/|title=Desguazarán el flotel Enchanteo Capri en Coatzacoalcos|date=16 October 2020}}
| Ship owner = *Demar Instaladora y Constructora, S.A. de C.V.: 2007–2020
| Ship operator = *Demar Instaladora y Constructora, S.A. de C.V.: 2007–2020
| Ship registry = Ciudad del Carmen Campeche, {{flag|Mexico|civil}} | Ship ordered = | Ship builder = Wärtsilä Turku Shipyard, Turku, Finland{{cite web|last=Asklander|first=Micke|title=M/S AZERBAIHZAN.|url=http://www.faktaomfartyg.se/azerbaihzan_1975.htm|publisher=Fakta om Fartyg|accessdate=29 April 2012}} | Ship yard number = | Ship laid down = 1974 | Ship launched = 14 April 1975 | Ship completed = 1976 | Ship christened = | Ship acquired = | Ship in service = 1976 | Ship out of service = 2020 | Ship identification = *Call sign XCJP7
| Ship fate = grounded in Alvarado in 2020 | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = (currently) | Ship class = Hotel ship | Ship tonnage = {{GT|15410}}, {{DWT|3000}}, {{NetT|6401}}{{cite web|url=http://www.isp-usa.com/fleet/enchantedcapri/enchantedcapri.html |title=Fleet Information – M/V Enchanted Capri |accessdate=2012-04-28 |archivedate=2012-02-20 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220005906/http://www.isp-usa.com/fleet/enchantedcapri/enchantedcapri.html |url-status=dead }} | Ship displacement = 11,319 tons | Ship length = {{cvt|157|m|ftin}} | Ship beam = {{cvt|21.83|m|ftin}} | Ship height = | Ship draught = {{cvt|6.2|m|ftin}} | Ship depth = 72 feet{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} | Ship ice class = | Ship power = 2 × Wärtsilä - S.E.M.T. Pielstick 18 PC 2-2V, 2 × {{cvt|9000|bhp}} | Ship propulsion = 2 × Kamewa CPP W/4 blades | Ship speed = {{convert|20|kn|lk=in}} | Ship capacity = 937 passengers | Ship crew = 155{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} | Ship notes = 248 rooms{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} }} |
MS Enchanted Capri is a wrecked {{sclass|Belorussiya|cruiseferry|0}} cruise ship owned by Demar Instaladora y Constructora, Mexico and operated as an accommodation vessel for oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. She was built in 1975 at Wärtsilä Turku Shipyard in Turku, Finland as the 15,409 GRT MS Azerbaydzhan for the Soviet Union-based Black Sea Shipping Company. She had also sailed under the names MS Arkadia and MS Island Holiday.
History
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The Azerbaydzhan was built in 1975 as the third ship of the five Belorussiya class passenger ships ordered by the Soviet Union from the Wärtsilä shipyard in Turku, Finland. She underwent refurbishments in 1984 in Bremerhaven, Germany and in 1997 in Freeport, Grand Bahama. In 1996, the vessel was acquired by BLASCO, Ukraine[http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/black.htm Black Sea Shipping Co. (Black Sea Steamship Co.)] and renamed Arkadia (Arkadiya).
The ship was chartered by SeaEscape, Florida and renamed Island Holiday.
On June 4, 1998, Commodore Cruise Line chartered the vessel, renamed her Enchanted Capri and started 2 and 5-day cruises from New Orleans, Louisiana with an emphasis on gaming. With 248 cabins, including eight suites, and eight passenger decks, the Enchanted Capri offered full cruise amenities such as swimming pools, restaurants, gift shops, bars, lounges, theater, disco, gym, sauna, beauty salon, and complete hospital facilities. Commodore Holdings Limited, the parent company to Commodore Cruise Line, and Casino America, Inc. announced that they had executed a definitive agreement under which Casino America would manage the casino operations aboard this ship. The onboard casino, with slots and a variety of table games, was under the Isle of Capri Casinos banner. Following Commodore's bankruptcy on January 11, 2001, the Enchanted Capri made news when the ship was arrested in New Orleans by the International Transport Workers' Federation on behalf of the crew, who were owed $500,000 in back wages. More than 230 crew stranded on the passenger vessel were sent home to forty countries in the biggest repatriation operation staged by the ITWF.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}}
The Enchanted Capri was laid up, her owners chartered her to the Mexican company Demar Instaladora y Constructora in 2003 and refurbished the vessel in 2005 to bring her up to the latest SOLAS standards. At the end of 2007 Enchanted Capri was totally owned by the Mexican company Demar Instaladora y Constructora.
In 2020, it was planned to scrap her in Coatzacoalcos.{{cite web|url=https://www.cruisedeck.de/enchanted-capri-wird-verschrottet/|title=ENCHANTED CAPRI wird verschrottet|date=2020-10-21|accessdate=2020-12-11|language=de}} However, she grounded in Alvarado after dragging anchor in a storm.{{cite web|url=https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/floatel-drifts-aground-off-port-of-alvarado-mexico|title=Former Cruise Ship Drifts Aground Off Port of Alvarado, Mexico|date=2020-11-04|accessdate=2020-12-11}} The vessel was abandoned and still aground as of December 2021.{{cite web |url=https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2021/36717/former-soviet-cruise-liner-now-ghost-ship-decaying/ |title=Former Soviet cruise liner, now a ghost ship, decaying in Gulf of Mexico |date=1 March 2025|publisher=Fleetmon |access-date=31 December 2020 }}
References
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External links
{{commons category|IMO 7359474}}
- [http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?search_imo=7359474&page_limit=300 Professional photographs] from shipspotting.com
- [https://web.archive.org/web/19990203034237/http://www.commodorecruise.com/ Enchanted Capri 1998 Fact Sheet]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061022133822/http://www.isp-usa.com/fleet/pdf/enchantedcapri_ga.pdf Enchanted Capri's General Arrangement]
- [http://www.demar.com.mx Demar Instaladora y Constructora MEXICO]
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Category:Passenger ships of the Soviet Union