Russia has depicted her passenger liner Mikhail Lermontov on a 16k stamp issued 1973. She is shown against a background of two globes indicating the route from Leningrad to New York, her normal service, but she is also used for cruising to the Caribbean, from Southampton, via Tenerife, Antigua, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia, Barbados, returning via Las Palmas to Southampton, the cruise taking 21 days.
Launched at Wismar on December 31,1970, she has a gross tonnage of 19,500 net 10,000. She is a sistership of the Alexandr Pushkin. The vessel is 176 metres long, 24 metres beam. Two oil engines having a total output of 21,000 h.p. give her a speed of 21 knots. She has accommodation for 670 passengers and 30 motor cars, and is capable of carrying 1,500 tons of cargo.
Sea Breezes May 1974.
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Mikhail Lermontov
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Built as a passenger-cargo vessel under yard No 129 by the Mathias-Thesen-Werft in Wismar, East Germany for the Baltic Shipping Co., Leningrad, USSR.
31 December 1970 launched as the MIKHAIL LERMONTOV, four sisters. The ships were named after writers and poets from the USSR.
Tonnage 19,872 grt, 10.740 nrt, 4,956 dwt. dim. 175.77 x 23.60 x 7.80m. (draught), length bpp.155.0m.
Powered by two 7-cyl. Sulzer-Cegielski diesel engines, 21,000 bhp. (15,666 kW), twin shafts, speed 20 knots.
Accommodation for 700 passengers, crew around 300.
18 March 1972 delivered to owners, homeport Leningrad.
21 April 1972 sailed for her maiden voyage on a cruise from Leningrad via Bremerhaven to the Canary Islands.
09 June 1972 in the liner service from Bremerhaven to Montreal.
28 May 1973 in the liner service from Leningrad, Bremerhaven, London, Le Havre to New York, used in this service during the summer the rest of the year used for cruises till 1980.
1980 The American government did not more allow that the ships of the USSR called at any USA ports, after this the MIKHAIL LERMONTOV was used only for cruise voyages.
From 06 January 1982 till 21 May 1982 at the Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven rebuilt and refurbished.
16 February 1986 on a cruise with on board 372 passengers in the New Zealand waters and with a pilot on board, due to mistakes made by the pilot she ran on a reef in the passage between Cape Jackson and the Cape Jackson lighthouse at 17.35.
The damage was so severe that at around 22.45 that day the ship sank in position 41 03.30S and 174 12.30E.
All the passengers were rescued, of the crew one man was missing and most probably drowned.
The complete story you can find on:
http://www.nzmaritime.co.nz/lermontov.htm or http://www.petemesley.com/lermontovhistorykd.htm
Russia 1973 16k sg4171, scott4083
Source: Wikipedia. http://www.faktaomfartyg.se/mikhail_lermontov_1972.htm
Given in 2014 by the URL below.
Its 20,000-tonne bulk would soon sit on the seabed but, as Russian liner
Mikhail Lermontov foundered, the Cossacks danced on.
Cocktails were served and dinner, the crew said, was on its way.
Earlier that day, on February 16, 1986, the Lermontov - named after a
19th-century Russian poet who died in a gun duel in 1841 - was taken on an
ill-advised shortcut across the top of Cape Jackson, at the head of the
Marlborough Sounds. It would be the last shortcut it would make.
On board, Adelaide yachtsman Henry Wilkens was in the middle of a game of
bridge.
"I was looking out the port window and could see a reef with a concrete
pillar and light on it. There was white water on either side of it.
"About three minutes before we hit the rocks, we were in between the reef
and the land. I certainly would never have taken a ship that way."
The Lermontov hit the rocks with a loud crunch. Mr Wilkens finished his
hand, but abandoned the game.
The cruise liner would sink at 10.50pm that night in Port Gore, south of
Cape Jackson.
The story effectively began a day earlier - 28 years ago today, on February
15, 1986 - when it set sail from Wellington, carrying an exhausted Captain
Don Jamison who was Picton harbourmaster, pilot and acting general manager.
On February 16, the ship sailed out of Picton with 409 passengers - mostly
elderly Australians - and 330 crew. Captain Jamison navigated through the
sounds, giving a tour- bus-like commentary over the speakers.
About 5pm, he made the crucial decision that led to the sinking.
He would later say in court that "the only explanation I can offer" was he
was suffering from mental and physical exhaustion. The two vodkas and a beer
he had that lunchtime had not impaired his judgment, he said.
He saw a passage open between Cape Jackson and the lighthouse, and ordered
the ship to be steered 10 degrees to port. Captain Vladislav Vorobyov was
off the bridge.
Captain Jamison had previously taken small boats with draughts of about two
metres through the passage, but nothing the size of the Lermontov, which had
a draught of more than 8m.
At 5.37pm it hit rocks, tearing a 10m-by-4m hole near its bow thrusters.
Captain Vorobyov rushed to the bridge.
Meanwhile, in the passenger areas, crew members tried to maintain an air of
normality.
Simone Young, then 18, would later tell how a crewman shook her awake and
took her and others to the saloon deck.
"We all had Russian cocktails," she remembered the next day.
Later, the ship's listing would become so bad that the Cossack dancers
struggled to stand, but crew members asked her to dance.
Passengers were told not to worry. They were told "crew won't be in uniform"
and "dinner will be served as normal".
Passengers would tell how a wine tasting ended only when glasses would no
longer remain upright as the ship listed.
A distress signal was sent out but, inexplicably, the Tarihiko LPG tanker
which was steaming towards Port Gore to help was told it was not required.
Its captain, John Reedman, ignored the advice and steamed on. The Tarihiko
would, in the dark, pluck 356 passengers and 164 crew from the Lermontov and
its liferafts and pack them on to decks for a return to Wellington.
Cook Strait ferry the Arahura arrived at 9.30pm and picked up others, as did
dozens of small craft that rushed to the scene.
The sun shone the next day as thousands of relics from the ship, including
hundreds of deck chairs, bobbed to the surface.
In the end, only one person - Russian engineer Pavel Zaglyadinov - was
unaccounted for.
After the sinking, a preliminary inquiry found Captain Jamison at fault but,
under the Shipping and Seamen Act, New Zealand had no jurisdiction to
conduct a full and formal inquiry in to a Russian ship. It was also decided
such an inquiry would find nothing new.
Captain Jamison would return to shipping, finally retiring as a skipper for
Strait Shipping in 2001. Police did not prosecute, as there was no proof
that Mr Zaglyadinov, whose body was never found, had died.
A damages settlement, reached out of court, was made between the harbour
board and the ship's owners. In Russia, Vorobyov was given a four-year
suspended jail sentence.
For 28 years, the Lermontov has sat on the bottom of Port Gore, slowly
getting covered with silt. Dive Wellington technical instructor Chris Clarke
visited the wreck last month, swimming through the green depths, through the
once- flash pool and down the hallways.
"You can never comprehend the size until you see it," he said.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/ne ... k-of-a-gia
nt
31 December 1970 launched as the MIKHAIL LERMONTOV, four sisters. The ships were named after writers and poets from the USSR.
Tonnage 19,872 grt, 10.740 nrt, 4,956 dwt. dim. 175.77 x 23.60 x 7.80m. (draught), length bpp.155.0m.
Powered by two 7-cyl. Sulzer-Cegielski diesel engines, 21,000 bhp. (15,666 kW), twin shafts, speed 20 knots.
Accommodation for 700 passengers, crew around 300.
18 March 1972 delivered to owners, homeport Leningrad.
21 April 1972 sailed for her maiden voyage on a cruise from Leningrad via Bremerhaven to the Canary Islands.
09 June 1972 in the liner service from Bremerhaven to Montreal.
28 May 1973 in the liner service from Leningrad, Bremerhaven, London, Le Havre to New York, used in this service during the summer the rest of the year used for cruises till 1980.
1980 The American government did not more allow that the ships of the USSR called at any USA ports, after this the MIKHAIL LERMONTOV was used only for cruise voyages.
From 06 January 1982 till 21 May 1982 at the Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven rebuilt and refurbished.
16 February 1986 on a cruise with on board 372 passengers in the New Zealand waters and with a pilot on board, due to mistakes made by the pilot she ran on a reef in the passage between Cape Jackson and the Cape Jackson lighthouse at 17.35.
The damage was so severe that at around 22.45 that day the ship sank in position 41 03.30S and 174 12.30E.
All the passengers were rescued, of the crew one man was missing and most probably drowned.
The complete story you can find on:
http://www.nzmaritime.co.nz/lermontov.htm or http://www.petemesley.com/lermontovhistorykd.htm
Russia 1973 16k sg4171, scott4083
Source: Wikipedia. http://www.faktaomfartyg.se/mikhail_lermontov_1972.htm
Given in 2014 by the URL below.
Its 20,000-tonne bulk would soon sit on the seabed but, as Russian liner
Mikhail Lermontov foundered, the Cossacks danced on.
Cocktails were served and dinner, the crew said, was on its way.
Earlier that day, on February 16, 1986, the Lermontov - named after a
19th-century Russian poet who died in a gun duel in 1841 - was taken on an
ill-advised shortcut across the top of Cape Jackson, at the head of the
Marlborough Sounds. It would be the last shortcut it would make.
On board, Adelaide yachtsman Henry Wilkens was in the middle of a game of
bridge.
"I was looking out the port window and could see a reef with a concrete
pillar and light on it. There was white water on either side of it.
"About three minutes before we hit the rocks, we were in between the reef
and the land. I certainly would never have taken a ship that way."
The Lermontov hit the rocks with a loud crunch. Mr Wilkens finished his
hand, but abandoned the game.
The cruise liner would sink at 10.50pm that night in Port Gore, south of
Cape Jackson.
The story effectively began a day earlier - 28 years ago today, on February
15, 1986 - when it set sail from Wellington, carrying an exhausted Captain
Don Jamison who was Picton harbourmaster, pilot and acting general manager.
On February 16, the ship sailed out of Picton with 409 passengers - mostly
elderly Australians - and 330 crew. Captain Jamison navigated through the
sounds, giving a tour- bus-like commentary over the speakers.
About 5pm, he made the crucial decision that led to the sinking.
He would later say in court that "the only explanation I can offer" was he
was suffering from mental and physical exhaustion. The two vodkas and a beer
he had that lunchtime had not impaired his judgment, he said.
He saw a passage open between Cape Jackson and the lighthouse, and ordered
the ship to be steered 10 degrees to port. Captain Vladislav Vorobyov was
off the bridge.
Captain Jamison had previously taken small boats with draughts of about two
metres through the passage, but nothing the size of the Lermontov, which had
a draught of more than 8m.
At 5.37pm it hit rocks, tearing a 10m-by-4m hole near its bow thrusters.
Captain Vorobyov rushed to the bridge.
Meanwhile, in the passenger areas, crew members tried to maintain an air of
normality.
Simone Young, then 18, would later tell how a crewman shook her awake and
took her and others to the saloon deck.
"We all had Russian cocktails," she remembered the next day.
Later, the ship's listing would become so bad that the Cossack dancers
struggled to stand, but crew members asked her to dance.
Passengers were told not to worry. They were told "crew won't be in uniform"
and "dinner will be served as normal".
Passengers would tell how a wine tasting ended only when glasses would no
longer remain upright as the ship listed.
A distress signal was sent out but, inexplicably, the Tarihiko LPG tanker
which was steaming towards Port Gore to help was told it was not required.
Its captain, John Reedman, ignored the advice and steamed on. The Tarihiko
would, in the dark, pluck 356 passengers and 164 crew from the Lermontov and
its liferafts and pack them on to decks for a return to Wellington.
Cook Strait ferry the Arahura arrived at 9.30pm and picked up others, as did
dozens of small craft that rushed to the scene.
The sun shone the next day as thousands of relics from the ship, including
hundreds of deck chairs, bobbed to the surface.
In the end, only one person - Russian engineer Pavel Zaglyadinov - was
unaccounted for.
After the sinking, a preliminary inquiry found Captain Jamison at fault but,
under the Shipping and Seamen Act, New Zealand had no jurisdiction to
conduct a full and formal inquiry in to a Russian ship. It was also decided
such an inquiry would find nothing new.
Captain Jamison would return to shipping, finally retiring as a skipper for
Strait Shipping in 2001. Police did not prosecute, as there was no proof
that Mr Zaglyadinov, whose body was never found, had died.
A damages settlement, reached out of court, was made between the harbour
board and the ship's owners. In Russia, Vorobyov was given a four-year
suspended jail sentence.
For 28 years, the Lermontov has sat on the bottom of Port Gore, slowly
getting covered with silt. Dive Wellington technical instructor Chris Clarke
visited the wreck last month, swimming through the green depths, through the
once- flash pool and down the hallways.
"You can never comprehend the size until you see it," he said.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/ne ... k-of-a-gia
nt