Technical:
Overall length: 194.7 m
Beam: 26.6 m
Draft: 8.3 m
Gross Tonnage: 24981 tons
Passengers: 788
Power: 2 x AEG steam turbines, 16900 kW
Service Speed: 23.00 knots
Operating Routes: Originally built for Hamburg - New York line, she has always been used for worldwide cruising.
Sister (or similar) Ships: None
Former Names: T.S. Hamburg (January, 1969), T.S. Hanseatic (December, 1973), T.S. Maksim Gorkiy (January, 1974).
Later Names: T.S Maxim Gorkiy (1991)
Owners:
- 1969-1974: Deutsche Atlantik Linie, Hamburg, Germany.
- 1974-1991: SOVCOMFLOT of Moscow, Soviet Union. Managed by the Black Sea Shipping Company (BLASCO), Odessa, Soviet Union, then Ukraine. Mostly chartered to Phoenix Reisen of Bonn, Germany.

- 1991-Present: Owned by the Belata Shipping Company Ltd, Nassau, Bahamas, for SOVCOMFLOT of Moscow, Russia. Technically managed by the Maxim Gorkiy Shipping Company of Nassau, Bahamas. Operated by the Phoenix Reisen of Bonn, Germany.
(appeared as Britannic in a movie with Omar Sharif as captain) In 1974 she started her career as Maxim Gorki, back then sowjet. She hosted a meeting between Gorbatschow and Bush in Malta, as a storm made it impossibel to use the warship they intended to use.
1989 (or 90) she hit an iceberg on her way to Svalbard, having her lower decks flooded. The Norwegian coast guard insisted to evacuate the passengers, which then found themselve standing on the ice...finally the captain was right, as she stayed afloat