In 1987 , after a poor season following the Achille Lauro hijacking , '' Aquarius '' was sold to Yugoslav Jadranska Linijska Plovidba in Rijeka and renamed '' Adriana '' . The ship ran cruises for Jadrolinija in the Adriatic and charters to other cruise companies such as HAPAG . In 1997 she was sold to Marina Cruises and passed to Nice-based Plein Cap , care of Marina Cruises . Between April 2008 and September 2010 , the ship was sold to Tapas and sailed as '' Adriana III '' . Since September 2010 , '' Adriana '' sailed under flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis with ( mainly ) Russian crew under the command of ship owner , captain Sergey Ponyatovsky , for Tropicana in the Caribbean Sea from Havana in 2011 and 2012 , for Black & Baltic Seas Cruise Company ( B&BS ) in the Black Sea from Odessa in 2013 and Sochi in 2014 , chartered by West Indies Cruise Line for cruises from Port of Spain in 2015
Achille Lauro hijacking
Achille Lauro hijacking
MS Adriana