Cruise ship wreck of the cruise ship "Mikhail Lermontov".

#Shipwreck #Disaster #CruiseShip The cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov was a Soviet eight-deck passenger cruise ship of the Ivan Franko class, a 750-passenger vessel. The ship was named after the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov. Her sister ships are the Ivan Franko, Alexander Pushkin, Shota Rustaveli, and Taras Shevchenko. The cruise ship sank in 1986 off the coast of New Zealand. Built for the Soviet Union at the VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar shipyard in Wismar, East Germany, in 1972. She made transatlantic crossings and tourist cruises to the coast of Australia. In 1983, she was modernized and refitted in West Germany. The Ship's Sinking The last voyage of the motor vessel Mikhail Lermontov was a charter cruise with the UK-registered travel agency Charter Travel Club, Ltd. On February 16, 1986, during pilotage under the direction of Senior Pilot and Harbormaster of Picton, Don Jamieson, in Shakespeare Bay off the coast of New Zealand, the vessel struck the bottom twice on the underwater rocks of a rocky shoal near Cape Jackson at 5:38 p.m. local time, sustaining a large hole in her port side below the waterline. The crew's efforts to salvage the ship by sealing the watertight compartments were ineffective: the rapid influx of water caused a dangerous list to starboard. Captain Vorobyov decided to run the vessel aground and entered Port Gore Bay for this purpose. At 7:13 PM, the motor ship Mikhail Lermontov lost propulsion less than one kilometer from the sandbank due to a flood in its main switchboard. The people on board—408 passengers (many of them pensioners), 330 crew members, and a New Zealand pilot—were rescued by the tanker Tarihiko and the ferry Arahura, which had approached the scene. A cenotaph for the deceased, Pavel Zaglyadimov, is located at the Serafimovskoye Cemetery in St. Petersburg. During the evacuation, the motor ship's list reached 85°. At 10:40 PM, 20 minutes after the evacuation was completed, the liner sank to a depth of 33 meters. One person died in the disaster: refrigeration engineer Pavel Zaglyadimov, who was working in the compartment that flooded immediately after the collision. A cenotaph in memory of him was installed at the Serafimovskoye cemetery in Leningrad. 11 people were injured. The cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov is a Soviet eight-deck passenger cruise ship of the Ivan Franko class, a sea vessel for 750 passengers. The ship was named after the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov. The twin ships are Ivan Franko, Alexander Pushkin, Shota Rustaveli and Taras Shevchenko. The cruise ship departed in 1986 off the coast of New Zealand. Built by Soviet order at the VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar shipyard in Wismar (GDR) in 1972. He made transatlantic crossings and tourist cruises to the shores of Australia. In 1983 it was modernized and refurbished in the Federal Republic of Germany. Ship wreck The last voyage of the motor ship "Mikhail Lermontov" was a charter cruise with a UK-registered travel company Charter Travel Club, Ltd. On February 16, 1986, during a pilotage under the direction of the senior pilot and captain of the port of Picton, Don Jameson, in Shakespeare's Bay off the coast of New Zealand, the ship at 17 hours 38 minutes local time at a speed of about 15 knots twice hit the bottom against the rocks of a rocky shallow in the area of ​​​​Cape Jackson and received an extensive breach on the port side below the waterline. The measures taken by the team to save the ship by battening down the watertight partitions of the compartments did not have an effect: as a result of the rapid flow of water, a dangerous list arose on the starboard side. Captain Vorobyov decided to run the ship aground and for this purpose entered Port-Gor Bay. At 19:13, due to the flooding of the main switchboard, the motor ship "Mikhail Lermontov" lost speed, not reaching the shallow less than one kilometer. The people on board - 408 passengers (a significant part of them of retirement age), 330 crew members and a New Zealand pilot - were rescued by the tanker Tarihiko and the Arahura ferry that came to the scene of the accident. Cenotaph to the deceased Pavel Zaglyadimov at the Serafimovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg During the evacuation, the roll of the ship reached 85°. At 22 hours 40 minutes, 20 minutes after the completion of the evacuation, the liner sank at a depth of 33 meters. One person died in the crash: an engineer of refrigeration units Pavel Zaglyadimov, who worked in a compartment that was flooded immediately after the collision. A cenotaph in his memory was erected at the Serafimovskoye Cemetery in Leningrad. Eleven people were injured. Nice to meet you here! Subscribe to the channel! Subscribe to the official "ALL ABOUT EVERYTHING" channel on YouTube:    / @vseobovsemm