MALYGIN
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MALYGIN
The E.T. Krenkel postage stamp commemorates the birth centenary of Krenkel (1903-1971, a polar explorer, doctor of geography.
Ernst T. Krenkel was a radio communications operator of many polar stations such as the Matochkin Shar, Tikhaya Bay, Olovyanny Cape and the Isle of Domashny, as well as the first drift-ice-unit “North Pole” (1937-1938).
Ernst T. Krenkel took part in numerous Arctic marine expeditions as a radio operator. He established radio contact between Franz Josef Land and the Antarctic, there the world high frequency distance record was set. The stamp features the dirigible “Count Zeppelin” and the icebreaker MALYGIN in the Bay of Tikhaya during the Arctic expedition of 1931, the Arctic rout of the dirigible, and a portrait of Ernst T. Krenkel, a polar station were Ernst T. Krenkel was radio operator, RAEM the personal radio cal sign of Krenkel.
Built as a cargo-passenger vessel under yard No 181 by Napier & Miller Ltd. at Glasgow, U.K. for Reid Newfoundland at St John’s, Newfoundland.
09 December 1911launched under the name BRUCE (II)
Tonnage 1.553 gross, dim. 250.4 x 36.2 x 22.3ft. Lloyds Register of 1914 gives: 1.622 gross, 408 net, 834 dwt. (source Navicula).
Triple expansion steam engine, 3.000 hp., one screw, speed 15 knots.
She was ice strengthened.
January 1912 delivered to owners.
Used as a Cabot Strait ferry by her Newfoundland owners.
1916 Sold to the Russian Government.
Around 1920 renamed in SOLOVEY BOUDIMIROVITCH.
1921 Used in the Floating Marine Scientific Institute Expedition, she accompanied the expedition in the Barents, Kara and White Sea.
1922 Renamed MALYGIN and managed by the Gov’t Northern S.S. Co., Archangelsk/Sovtorgflot.
1928 Together with the icebreaker SEDOV took part in the search for the Italian Mr. Umberto Nobile’s Expedition.
1930 Together with the icebreaker KRASIN she reached a position of 81 47N.
01 January 1933 ran ashore near Faestningen Rock, Spitsbergen on a voyage from Murmansk to Spitsbergen, with on board passengers and general cargo.
Declared a Constructive Total Loss. She was refloated and repaired.
27 Oct. 1940 wrecked off Cape Nizhny, Kamchatka, during bad weather.
1960 was she deleted from Lloyds Register.
Among the most desirable of polar philatelic items are those from the polar rendezvous of the Graf Zeppelin airship and the Russian ice breaker MALYGIN. The intent had originally been to rendezvous with the submarine NAUTILUS (on a Kiribati stamp of 1993), which was then on a Trans-Polar expedition led by Sir Hubert Wilkens..
Between 24 and 31 July 1931, the GRAF ZEPPELIN was on an Arctic flight. The pilot was Count Von Eckner, Lincoln Ellsworth (another famous polar explorer in his own rights) was the navigator and a Professor Somoilovich was an observer. They traveled some 8.000 miles with a flight time of 136 hours. On 27 July, they had a mail exchange in their rendezvous, which took place at Hooker Island, located in the Franz Josef group of islands.
Russia 1931 30k/2r sg 584/87, scott C26/33 1981 15k sg 514. 2003
Hungary 1981 2fo sg 3367.
Nicaragua 1994 in ms margin sg?, scott 1990
North Korea 1980 10ch/30ch sg N2016/19.
Mongolia 1981 50/4t sg 1394/1398., scott C100, C 149
Sao Tome e Principe 1988 10d sg? Scott 829c
Some web-sites. Register of Merchant Ships Completed in 1912.
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Re: MALYGIN
Guyana 1993 sg?, scott? (in margin of sheet.) As Peter gives below she is not the MALYGIN, but a USA Coast Guard cutter. She is not identified.
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Mongolia 1981 50m/1l20 sg1394/97 anfd mssg1398
Mongolia 1981 50m/1l20 sg1394/97 anfd mssg1398
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Re: MALYGIN
The ship in the margin of the 1993 Guyana MS is a US Coast Guard ice breaker and not the MALYGIN.