Princess Anabella

The ship was built in 1973 in the Netherlands (Arnhemsche Scheepsbouw shipyard in Arnhem) as a hospital medical ship and was put into operation under the name "J. Henry Dunant". In 1995, the ship was sold and named "Henry" until 2002 was used as a floating hostel for shipyard workers in the city of Lobith-Tolkamer in the Netherlands.

In 2005, the ship "Henry" was sold to the Russian company Belata Shipping Moscow LLC to organize flights from Moscow and St. Petersburg to the Solovetsky Islands. From Holland, the ship was ferried to St. Petersburg, and by the autumn of 2005 the ship arrived at the shipyard in Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod Region, where in 2006-2007 it was converted into a passenger ship.

It was originally planned that it would go into operation in August 2006 from the German tour operator Phoenix Reisen, then the dates were postponed to 2007, but in the end, the ship, called the Princess Anabella, went on its first voyage only in 2008. The tour operator of the ship was CJSC Marine Cruise Company Karavella.

In 2009, the ship was sold to Doninturflot, and the subsidiary Ortodox became its tour operator. Until 2013, the ship annually made several trips from Moscow along the White Sea-Baltic Canal, first to Belomorsk, and then to Sosnovets, from where tourists were delivered to the Solovetsky Islands. Since 2013, the ship has been used for almost the entire season on cruises between Moscow and St. Petersburg with foreign tourists, and at the beginning and end of navigation, it carried out ferry voyages from Rostov-on-Don to Moscow and back.