Icebreaker built D & W Henderson, Glasgow, 1909 as BELLAVENTURE. First ship to make direct run, Murmansk-Archangel by North east Passage. 1132Gt. Sunk by Admiral Scheer, Kara sea 26 Aug 1942.
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Aleksandr Sibiriakov
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Navicula has her also on two stamps of Russia issued in 1932, 50k and 1R. Stanley Gibbons Collect ships on Stamps mentioned the ship under Express Stamps E591 and E592. The icebreaker there is given as TAIMYR. The two stamps were issued for the Second International Polar Year in 1932/33, the TAIMYR took no part in the Second International Polar Year, the ALEKSANDR SIBIRIAKOV took part. She is given in Russian source as the SIBERYAKOV. The plane on the stamp is a Fokker FIII.
Built as a cargo-passenger-sealer under yard No 464 by D & W Henderson & Co. Ltd. Glasgow for the Bellaventure SS Co. Ltd. (A. Harvey & Co.), St John’s Newfoundland.
23 November 1908 launched under the name BELLAVENTURE.
Tonnage 1.132 gross, 467 net, dim. 241 x 35.8 x 16.9ft.
Powered by a triple expansion steamengine, 2.000 hp., speed 11 knots.
Single deck, schooner rigged. Ice strengthened.
January 1909 delivered to owners.
The same year, she saved the crew of the steamship VIRGINA LAKE.
1912 Used for the transport of construction material for the construction of the Hudson Bay Railway.
She was used also as a sealer, was one of the vessels involved in the 1914 sealing disaster off Newfoundland. At that time she was under command of Capt. Robert Randell.
On 30 March a group of sealers from the NEWFOUNDLAND was sent from that ship over the ice to the STEPHANO for instructions to reach some seals, while a storm was brewing. Captain Abram Kean of the STEPHANO told the men were they could find the seals, and when finished with the job, to return to the NEWFOUNDLAND. When the storm broke out, the men were still on the ice, and both captains thought that the men were safe on the other’s ship. Both ships did not have a radio, and not any search was undertaken to find the men. With no shelter and food, and with temperatures of minus 20 they spent 53 hours on the ice before they were spotted by the BELLAVENTURE.
Of the 133 men and boys left on the ice, 78 died of either exposure or drowning, 11 men were permanently disabled.
The BELLAVENTURE arrived 4 April at St John’s early in the evening, with 55 survivors and 77 bodies.
For some time she was chartered by the United Fruit Company and managed by the Mosquito Fleet, the book Going Bananas did not give a timeframe when she was chartered, but I believe during World War I.
When the Gallipolis operation in the Dardanelle’s failed during 1915, and the Dardanelle’s and Bosporus were closed for western shipping, it was decided to supply Russia via the Northerly route from the U.K. to Archanghelsk, and for this reason seven ice strengthen vessels were bought by the Russian Imperial Government.
1917 Sold to the Russian Government. Used for the transport of stores and material from the U.K. to Archangelsk.
1919 Managed by the Ellerman’s Wilson Line. (a book I have on the Wilson Line did not mention her as managed by the company)
1921 Owned by the Russian Government/Government Northern SS Co., Archangelsk/Sovtorgflot/ U.S.S.R., renamed in ALEKSANDR SIBIRIAKOV (sometimes spelled as SIBIRYAKOV). Named after the Russian merchant Aleksandr Sibiriakov.
Her most fame she got when she with on board Otto J. Schmidt sailed from Archangelsk on 28 July 1932 for a non stop voyage via the Northern route in one season to the Bering Strait. During that voyage she lost her propeller in the ice near the Bering Dtrait.,With the help of her sails she went to open water in the Bering Strait, and was then picked up and towed by the fishing vessel USSURIJETS to port.
It was a very successful voyage and the beginning of the regular navigation along the Siberian coast.
Her return voyage to Archangelsk was via the Suez Channel, and she was the first vessel that complete an Asian continent circumnavigated
24 Nov. 1936 she stranded near Cape Menshikoff, Kara Sea, subsequently salvaged.
19 August 1942 the German heavy cruiser ADMIRAL SCHEER reached Point Zhelaniye, with the plan to destroy the Russian northern convoy’s and special to wipe the entire western northern icebreaker fleet of the Arctic waters.
On 25 August at 12.00 she spotted the ALEKSANDR SIBIRIAKOV, which had sailed from Dikson with personnel, stores and construction material to build a new weather station on Cape Arktichesky on the north point of the island Severnay Zemlya. ADMIRAL SCHEER ordered her to stop the vessel, the Germans wanted the ice charts of the area and convoy reports, but the ALEKSANDR SIBIRIAKOV did not stop but increased her speed, away from a Russian convoy they know was in the vicinity.
12.18 the ALEKSANDR SIBIRIAKOV radioed to Port Dickson that an enemy ship pursued her.
At 12.30 fire was opened on the vessel, which at that time only was armed with three old 76-mm and 45-mm guns. She also opened fire, but was no match for the cruiser.
She tried to escape behind a smoke screen, but was hit by heavy shells, caught fire and started to sink.
She sank in a position of 76 12N 91 30E near Belucha Island.
Of the more as 100 persons on board the ALEKSANDR SIBIRIAKOV only 28were rescued by the ADMIRAL SCHEER .
Sources: register of Merchant Ships Completed in 1909. http://admiral.centro.ru/memor08.htm Navicula.
Sea Breeze. Going Bananas by Mark H. Goldberg.
Built as a cargo-passenger-sealer under yard No 464 by D & W Henderson & Co. Ltd. Glasgow for the Bellaventure SS Co. Ltd. (A. Harvey & Co.), St John’s Newfoundland.
23 November 1908 launched under the name BELLAVENTURE.
Tonnage 1.132 gross, 467 net, dim. 241 x 35.8 x 16.9ft.
Powered by a triple expansion steamengine, 2.000 hp., speed 11 knots.
Single deck, schooner rigged. Ice strengthened.
January 1909 delivered to owners.
The same year, she saved the crew of the steamship VIRGINA LAKE.
1912 Used for the transport of construction material for the construction of the Hudson Bay Railway.
She was used also as a sealer, was one of the vessels involved in the 1914 sealing disaster off Newfoundland. At that time she was under command of Capt. Robert Randell.
On 30 March a group of sealers from the NEWFOUNDLAND was sent from that ship over the ice to the STEPHANO for instructions to reach some seals, while a storm was brewing. Captain Abram Kean of the STEPHANO told the men were they could find the seals, and when finished with the job, to return to the NEWFOUNDLAND. When the storm broke out, the men were still on the ice, and both captains thought that the men were safe on the other’s ship. Both ships did not have a radio, and not any search was undertaken to find the men. With no shelter and food, and with temperatures of minus 20 they spent 53 hours on the ice before they were spotted by the BELLAVENTURE.
Of the 133 men and boys left on the ice, 78 died of either exposure or drowning, 11 men were permanently disabled.
The BELLAVENTURE arrived 4 April at St John’s early in the evening, with 55 survivors and 77 bodies.
For some time she was chartered by the United Fruit Company and managed by the Mosquito Fleet, the book Going Bananas did not give a timeframe when she was chartered, but I believe during World War I.
When the Gallipolis operation in the Dardanelle’s failed during 1915, and the Dardanelle’s and Bosporus were closed for western shipping, it was decided to supply Russia via the Northerly route from the U.K. to Archanghelsk, and for this reason seven ice strengthen vessels were bought by the Russian Imperial Government.
1917 Sold to the Russian Government. Used for the transport of stores and material from the U.K. to Archangelsk.
1919 Managed by the Ellerman’s Wilson Line. (a book I have on the Wilson Line did not mention her as managed by the company)
1921 Owned by the Russian Government/Government Northern SS Co., Archangelsk/Sovtorgflot/ U.S.S.R., renamed in ALEKSANDR SIBIRIAKOV (sometimes spelled as SIBIRYAKOV). Named after the Russian merchant Aleksandr Sibiriakov.
Her most fame she got when she with on board Otto J. Schmidt sailed from Archangelsk on 28 July 1932 for a non stop voyage via the Northern route in one season to the Bering Strait. During that voyage she lost her propeller in the ice near the Bering Dtrait.,With the help of her sails she went to open water in the Bering Strait, and was then picked up and towed by the fishing vessel USSURIJETS to port.
It was a very successful voyage and the beginning of the regular navigation along the Siberian coast.
Her return voyage to Archangelsk was via the Suez Channel, and she was the first vessel that complete an Asian continent circumnavigated
24 Nov. 1936 she stranded near Cape Menshikoff, Kara Sea, subsequently salvaged.
19 August 1942 the German heavy cruiser ADMIRAL SCHEER reached Point Zhelaniye, with the plan to destroy the Russian northern convoy’s and special to wipe the entire western northern icebreaker fleet of the Arctic waters.
On 25 August at 12.00 she spotted the ALEKSANDR SIBIRIAKOV, which had sailed from Dikson with personnel, stores and construction material to build a new weather station on Cape Arktichesky on the north point of the island Severnay Zemlya. ADMIRAL SCHEER ordered her to stop the vessel, the Germans wanted the ice charts of the area and convoy reports, but the ALEKSANDR SIBIRIAKOV did not stop but increased her speed, away from a Russian convoy they know was in the vicinity.
12.18 the ALEKSANDR SIBIRIAKOV radioed to Port Dickson that an enemy ship pursued her.
At 12.30 fire was opened on the vessel, which at that time only was armed with three old 76-mm and 45-mm guns. She also opened fire, but was no match for the cruiser.
She tried to escape behind a smoke screen, but was hit by heavy shells, caught fire and started to sink.
She sank in a position of 76 12N 91 30E near Belucha Island.
Of the more as 100 persons on board the ALEKSANDR SIBIRIAKOV only 28were rescued by the ADMIRAL SCHEER .
Sources: register of Merchant Ships Completed in 1909. http://admiral.centro.ru/memor08.htm Navicula.
Sea Breeze. Going Bananas by Mark H. Goldberg.
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Otto Yulyevich Schmidt (1891–1956) was a Soviet mathematician, geographer, geophysicist, astronomer, professor, member of the Academy of Science of the USSR, a Hero of the Soviet Union (1937), an explorer of the Pamir Mountains and the Polar Circle.
Schmidt was one of the creators and an editor-in-chief of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. He initiated the founding of an academic geophysics institution. In 1930–1934, he led the famous arctic expeditions on GEORGY SEDOV, ALEKSANDR SIBIRYAKOV and CHELYUSKIN steam icebreakers.
Otto Schmidt was an honorary member of the Russian Geographical Society; he made a major contribution to the exploration of the northern polar territories. In 1932, Schmidt was the head of the expedition on the A. SIBIRYAKOV steam icebreaker, which made a non-stop voyage along the Northern Sea Route without wintering for the first time in history.
On 27 June 1937, under a Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Otto Schmidt was awarded a title of the Hero of the Soviet Union for spearheading establishing the North Pole-1 drifting ice station.
The postcard with an original stamp depicts a portrait of Otto Schmidt against the background of the Tupolev TB-3 aircraft. The main image features Schmidt's expedition on the A. SIBIRYAKOV steam icebreaker.
Russia 2016 postcard, the ALEXSANDR SIBIRYAKOV is depict on the left of the postcard
Source: http://www.rus.marka.ru
Schmidt was one of the creators and an editor-in-chief of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. He initiated the founding of an academic geophysics institution. In 1930–1934, he led the famous arctic expeditions on GEORGY SEDOV, ALEKSANDR SIBIRYAKOV and CHELYUSKIN steam icebreakers.
Otto Schmidt was an honorary member of the Russian Geographical Society; he made a major contribution to the exploration of the northern polar territories. In 1932, Schmidt was the head of the expedition on the A. SIBIRYAKOV steam icebreaker, which made a non-stop voyage along the Northern Sea Route without wintering for the first time in history.
On 27 June 1937, under a Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Otto Schmidt was awarded a title of the Hero of the Soviet Union for spearheading establishing the North Pole-1 drifting ice station.
The postcard with an original stamp depicts a portrait of Otto Schmidt against the background of the Tupolev TB-3 aircraft. The main image features Schmidt's expedition on the A. SIBIRYAKOV steam icebreaker.
Russia 2016 postcard, the ALEXSANDR SIBIRYAKOV is depict on the left of the postcard
Source: http://www.rus.marka.ru
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