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MS Mikhail Lermontov
MS Mikhail Lermontov was an ocean liner owned by the Soviet Union's Baltic Shipping Company, built in 1972 by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany.It was later converted into a cruise ship.On 16 February 1986 it collided with rocks near Port Gore in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand, and sank, claiming the life of one of its crew members.
Sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov
At 5.37 p.m. on 16 February 1986, the Soviet cruise liner Mikhail Lermontov hit rocks off Cape Jackson in the Marlborough Sounds. With its hull sliced open in three places, the 155-m vessel limped towards Port Gore, where it sank at 10.45 p.m. The inter-island ferry Arahura , the LPG tanker Tarihiko and a flotilla of small craft rescued all but ...
1986: Mysterious sinking of cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov
Telegraph key, salvaged from the sunken cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov. The 155-metre-long vessel had grounded and then foundered on the 16th of February 1986 shortly after leaving the New Zealand port of Picton. The ship sank in an isolated bay on the sparsely populated northern coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
From the Archives, 1986: "We were about 10 minutes from death."
The Soviet cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov on it last voyage out of Sydney harbour before sinking off New Zealand waters, February 1986. Credit: Peter Barnes "It went down 10 minutes after we got ...
A Disaster Unfolds: The Sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov ...
A short documentary detailing the chaotic events of the Mikhail Lermontov's final cruise in New Zealand before it ultimately sank. Thanks for watching. Pleas...
The last cruise of Mikhail Lermontov
In a new book on the sinking, Death of a Cruise Ship, to be published by Cape Catley in July 1999, Tom O'Connor describes the terrifying experience of a group of passengers who became trapped inside. . Joan Dillon and her daughter Gail Cottle had been mighty relieved when the announcement had finally come that they were to go to the lifeboats.
Destination Disaster: The Sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov
Destination Disaster: The Sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov - This award-winning documentary is an account of the last days and sinking of Russian cruise liner Mikhail Lermontov. On 16 February, 1986, she ran aground on rocks in the Marlborough Sounds. Passengers were successfully evacuated, but a Russian crew member lost his life, and several were injured.
Shipwrecks
The German-built Rena is the largest ship ever wrecked in New Zealand waters. No lives were lost, but in financial terms it was our costliest-ever shipwreck. ... 16 February 1986. Sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov. At 5.37 p.m. on 16 February 1986, the Soviet cruise liner Mikhail Lermontov hit rocks off Cape ... Fifteen of the 83 people on board ...
Sinking of Mikhail Lermontov
This life buoy and life jacket from our collection were recovered from the sunk Russian cruise liner MS Mikhail Leromontov. The ship collided with rocks near Port Gore in the Marlborough Sounds on the evening of 16th February 1986. She carried 372 passengers and 348 crew. The ship was badly torn on her port side with three gashes totalling ...
The Experience of a Lifetime
EP/1989/1713/4 Soviet cruise liner the Mikhail Lermontov sinking in the Marlborough Sounds, taken ca 16 February 1986 by the skipper of a fishing boat. Photo: Supplied. "Like a 55-storey building at the bottom of the ocean." 13′ 40″. Port Gore Bay in the Marlborough Sounds is a beautiful place - from the shore.
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What caused the mysterious sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov, a Soviet cruise ship, off the coast of New Zealand in 1986? Read the fascinating story of the disaster, the rescue, and the aftermath ...
Costa Concordia disaster
MS Costa Concordia in Palma, Majorca, in 2011. Costa Concordia (call sign: IBHD, IMO number: 9320544, MMSI number: 247158500), with 3,206 passengers and 1,023 crew members on board, was sailing off Isola del Giglio on the night of 13 January 2012, having begun a planned seven-day cruise from Civitavecchia, Lazio, Italy, to Savona and five other ports. The port side of the ship struck a reef at ...
Mikhail Lermontov (Ship)
Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1934 and 1986. Includes ships from the Maru line; Masa, Choryo, Koyu, and Minato. ... Also correspondence with Doug Kidd and others relating to the sinking of the cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed ...
Lessons Learned From the TEV Wahine Sinking
Lessons Learned From the TEV Wahine Sinking. Published Apr 8, 2018 7:51 PM by The Maritime Executive. April 10 is the 50th anniversary of New Zealand's worst maritime disaster in modern times ...
MS Sea Diamond
MS Mikhail Lermontov, a Soviet cruise ship which ran aground on well-charted rocks and subsequently sank in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand, in 1986 under similar circumstances to the Sea Diamond. MS Express Samina, a Greek car ferry which hit a pair of rocky islets and sank near the Cyclades island of Paros in 2000.
Fiordland Navigator ship that ran aground in Doubtful Sound ...
Transport Accident investigators say the cruise ship that ran aground in Fiordland on Wednesday night was previously subject to an investigation. The Fiordland Navigator became stranded on rocks in Doubtful Sound shortly after 6pm. All 67 passengers and crew onboard were evacuated, with one person sustaining minor injuries.
Cruise Passengers Left on 'Cruise to Nowhere' Suffer Seasickness
Passengers were left on a 'crummy cruise to nowhere' after their ship was turned away from New Zealand because it had 3 mussels and a piece of coral stuck to the hull Pete Syme 2023-11-27T12:31:27Z
News of Titanic sinking reaches New Zealand
The Titanic 's sinking had an immediate impact on New Zealand's biggest business, the Union Steam Ship Company. One of the empire's major shipping lines, it had offices in London and Glasgow, where it usually had at least one ship under construction. The company's London office began by matching the 100-guinea (equivalent to more than ...
Shipwrecks
Some famous shipwrecks. The Orpheus was the wreck with the greatest loss of life in New Zealand waters. It sank on 7 February 1863 when it struck a sandbar near Auckland. Of the 259 people on board, 189 died. The second greatest wreck was on 29-30 April 1881 when the Tararua hit a reef at Waipapa Point, Southland. In all, 131 people died.
Passengers in an 'uproar' after P&O cruise ship turned away from New
VIDEO. : Passengers in an 'uproar' after P&O cruise ship turned away from New Zealand. Posted Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 7:55am. Watch. 1m 33s. The ship was denied entry to New Zealand waters under the ...
Half of wrecked cargo ship sinking in New Zealand
The 774-foot (236-meter) vessel has been battered by heavy seas since it ran aground Oct. 5 and the ship broke in two over the weekend. Astrolabe Reef is 14 miles (22 kilometers) from Tauranga ...
Without stricter conditions, NZ should be in no hurry to reopen its
The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research reports that "despite its high visibility, cruise tourism accounts for about 9% of international visitor arrivals (approximately 350,000 cruise ...
SS Oriana (1959)
SS Oriana was the last of the Orient Steam Navigation Company's ocean liners.She was built at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England and launched on 3 November 1959 by Princess Alexandra. Oriana first appeared as an Orient Line ship, with a corn-coloured hull, until 1966, when that company was fully absorbed into the P&O group. Faced with unprofitable around-the-world ...
Cruise Ship Nightmares
The ship was expected to dock in Miami, but it was diverted to the Bahamas in January 2022 in an effort to evade a federal order for U.S. Marshals to seize the vessel, part of a lawsuit over $4.6 million in unpaid fuel. Passengers were ferried to Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale a day after their scheduled return to Miami.
The end of P&O cruises in Australia
After 90 years, P&O cruises end in Australia with a whimper. P&O Cruises Australia isn't ending in coronavirus, bankruptcy or a sinking. It isn't going to end with any sort of bang at all, but ...
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MS Mikhail Lermontov was an ocean liner owned by the Soviet Union's Baltic Shipping Company, built in 1972 by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany.It was later converted into a cruise ship.On 16 February 1986 it collided with rocks near Port Gore in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand, and sank, claiming the life of one of its crew members.
At 5.37 p.m. on 16 February 1986, the Soviet cruise liner Mikhail Lermontov hit rocks off Cape Jackson in the Marlborough Sounds. With its hull sliced open in three places, the 155-m vessel limped towards Port Gore, where it sank at 10.45 p.m. The inter-island ferry Arahura , the LPG tanker Tarihiko and a flotilla of small craft rescued all but ...
Telegraph key, salvaged from the sunken cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov. The 155-metre-long vessel had grounded and then foundered on the 16th of February 1986 shortly after leaving the New Zealand port of Picton. The ship sank in an isolated bay on the sparsely populated northern coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
The Soviet cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov on it last voyage out of Sydney harbour before sinking off New Zealand waters, February 1986. Credit: Peter Barnes "It went down 10 minutes after we got ...
A short documentary detailing the chaotic events of the Mikhail Lermontov's final cruise in New Zealand before it ultimately sank. Thanks for watching. Pleas...
In a new book on the sinking, Death of a Cruise Ship, to be published by Cape Catley in July 1999, Tom O'Connor describes the terrifying experience of a group of passengers who became trapped inside. . Joan Dillon and her daughter Gail Cottle had been mighty relieved when the announcement had finally come that they were to go to the lifeboats.
Destination Disaster: The Sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov - This award-winning documentary is an account of the last days and sinking of Russian cruise liner Mikhail Lermontov. On 16 February, 1986, she ran aground on rocks in the Marlborough Sounds. Passengers were successfully evacuated, but a Russian crew member lost his life, and several were injured.
The German-built Rena is the largest ship ever wrecked in New Zealand waters. No lives were lost, but in financial terms it was our costliest-ever shipwreck. ... 16 February 1986. Sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov. At 5.37 p.m. on 16 February 1986, the Soviet cruise liner Mikhail Lermontov hit rocks off Cape ... Fifteen of the 83 people on board ...
This life buoy and life jacket from our collection were recovered from the sunk Russian cruise liner MS Mikhail Leromontov. The ship collided with rocks near Port Gore in the Marlborough Sounds on the evening of 16th February 1986. She carried 372 passengers and 348 crew. The ship was badly torn on her port side with three gashes totalling ...
EP/1989/1713/4 Soviet cruise liner the Mikhail Lermontov sinking in the Marlborough Sounds, taken ca 16 February 1986 by the skipper of a fishing boat. Photo: Supplied. "Like a 55-storey building at the bottom of the ocean." 13′ 40″. Port Gore Bay in the Marlborough Sounds is a beautiful place - from the shore.
What caused the mysterious sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov, a Soviet cruise ship, off the coast of New Zealand in 1986? Read the fascinating story of the disaster, the rescue, and the aftermath ...
MS Costa Concordia in Palma, Majorca, in 2011. Costa Concordia (call sign: IBHD, IMO number: 9320544, MMSI number: 247158500), with 3,206 passengers and 1,023 crew members on board, was sailing off Isola del Giglio on the night of 13 January 2012, having begun a planned seven-day cruise from Civitavecchia, Lazio, Italy, to Savona and five other ports. The port side of the ship struck a reef at ...
Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1934 and 1986. Includes ships from the Maru line; Masa, Choryo, Koyu, and Minato. ... Also correspondence with Doug Kidd and others relating to the sinking of the cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed ...
Lessons Learned From the TEV Wahine Sinking. Published Apr 8, 2018 7:51 PM by The Maritime Executive. April 10 is the 50th anniversary of New Zealand's worst maritime disaster in modern times ...
MS Mikhail Lermontov, a Soviet cruise ship which ran aground on well-charted rocks and subsequently sank in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand, in 1986 under similar circumstances to the Sea Diamond. MS Express Samina, a Greek car ferry which hit a pair of rocky islets and sank near the Cyclades island of Paros in 2000.
Transport Accident investigators say the cruise ship that ran aground in Fiordland on Wednesday night was previously subject to an investigation. The Fiordland Navigator became stranded on rocks in Doubtful Sound shortly after 6pm. All 67 passengers and crew onboard were evacuated, with one person sustaining minor injuries.
Passengers were left on a 'crummy cruise to nowhere' after their ship was turned away from New Zealand because it had 3 mussels and a piece of coral stuck to the hull Pete Syme 2023-11-27T12:31:27Z
The Titanic 's sinking had an immediate impact on New Zealand's biggest business, the Union Steam Ship Company. One of the empire's major shipping lines, it had offices in London and Glasgow, where it usually had at least one ship under construction. The company's London office began by matching the 100-guinea (equivalent to more than ...
Some famous shipwrecks. The Orpheus was the wreck with the greatest loss of life in New Zealand waters. It sank on 7 February 1863 when it struck a sandbar near Auckland. Of the 259 people on board, 189 died. The second greatest wreck was on 29-30 April 1881 when the Tararua hit a reef at Waipapa Point, Southland. In all, 131 people died.
VIDEO. : Passengers in an 'uproar' after P&O cruise ship turned away from New Zealand. Posted Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 7:55am. Watch. 1m 33s. The ship was denied entry to New Zealand waters under the ...
The 774-foot (236-meter) vessel has been battered by heavy seas since it ran aground Oct. 5 and the ship broke in two over the weekend. Astrolabe Reef is 14 miles (22 kilometers) from Tauranga ...
The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research reports that "despite its high visibility, cruise tourism accounts for about 9% of international visitor arrivals (approximately 350,000 cruise ...
SS Oriana was the last of the Orient Steam Navigation Company's ocean liners.She was built at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England and launched on 3 November 1959 by Princess Alexandra. Oriana first appeared as an Orient Line ship, with a corn-coloured hull, until 1966, when that company was fully absorbed into the P&O group. Faced with unprofitable around-the-world ...
The ship was expected to dock in Miami, but it was diverted to the Bahamas in January 2022 in an effort to evade a federal order for U.S. Marshals to seize the vessel, part of a lawsuit over $4.6 million in unpaid fuel. Passengers were ferried to Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale a day after their scheduled return to Miami.
After 90 years, P&O cruises end in Australia with a whimper. P&O Cruises Australia isn't ending in coronavirus, bankruptcy or a sinking. It isn't going to end with any sort of bang at all, but ...