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MECHTA

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:38 am

The wooden one mast yacht MECHTA was special built in 1899 for the A.A. Borisov expedition in 1900, she was built by the shipbuilder Pomor S.V. Postnikov at Koryazhma on the Witte Sea.
She was designed after the Norwegian FRAM of Nansen.

The list of accidents caused by heavy ice conditions in the Kara Sea begins with the drift of the yacht MECHTA (Dream) with an expedition organized by the artist Aleksander A. Borisov. In 1900, the yacht was captured by ice and abandoned by the crew. The single-mast wooden yacht MECHTA (40 tonnes) was used to investigate the eastern shore of the northern island of Novaya Zemlya and was caught in ice drift. The following description is from Vize (1948). On 12 September, Borisov left the Pomor Bay on board the MECHTA and continued along the Matochkin Shar Strait to the east. A great deal of ice was encountered immediately after entering the Kara Sea. The ice conditions allowed the expedition to reach only as far as the Chekin Gulf.
Soon, the MECHTA was nipped and began to drift with the ice to the south. On 10 October, the members of the expedition and the crew abandoned the ship. They arrived at the eastern shore of the southern island of Novaya Zemlya, near the mouth of the Savina River after two weeks of difficult hiking through the pack ice and eating seal meat, which was provided by Nenets Ustin. Then Borisov crossed the Novaya Zemlya and arrived at Pomor Bay on 12 November. He overwintered there. Nothing is known about the fate of the MECHTA after the crew left. Most likely, the ship was crushed by ice and sank.
http://geography.name/accidents/

The card is designed after the painting.
MECHTA Yacht (A ship in the ice), 1899, Arctic Museum, Arkhangelsk. MECHTA was the ship built for the 1900 polar expedition and brought Borisov and his team to Novaya Zemlya. (A other source give that the painting was made in 1904.)
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Alexander_Al ... ch_Borisov

Russia 2016 prepaid postal card.
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Mechta_(Dream)_Yacht_Borisov.jpg
2016 Mechta.jpg

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