Mathias-Thesen Werft Wismar East GermanyIt was later converted into a cruise shipOn 16 February 1986 she collided with rocks near Port Gore in the Marlborough Sounds New Zealand and sank claiming the life of one of her crew members.
The wreck of 86. MS Mikhail Lermontov was an ocean liner owned by the Soviet Unions Baltic Shipping Company built in 1972 by VEB.