Lyubov Orlova (ship)
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The Lyubov Orlova (built as Lyubovy Orlova ) was a passenger ship of Mariya-Yermolova class (Project 1454). The ship was named after the Soviet actress Lyubov Petrovna Orlova . It has been considered lost since February 2013 and has in all probability sunk.
history
The Lyubov Orlova in 1976 on the Yugoslav shipyard Brodogradilište "Tito" in Kraljevica for the Soviet Far Eastern Shipping Company in Vladivostok as a battleship with ice class built. In 1999 the ship was converted into a cruise ship for the polar regions and chartered out by the Lyubov Orlova Shipping Company to appropriate tour operators , most recently to "Cruise North", a Canadian provider of expedition cruises in the Arctic region. At the end of September 2010, the Lyubov Orlova was arrested in St. John's in Newfoundland at the request of a freight forwarder who had outstanding claims of around USD 250,000 against the shipowner. The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) also got involved, as the crew had not received a wage for several months . The 50 Russian and Ukrainian seamen were later taken off board and brought back to their homeland. The ship classified by the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping was removed from the register on April 5, 2011.
In February 2012, an Iranian merchant bought the ship for $ 275,000 to be scrapped in the Dominican Republic . In January 2013, the ship was to be towed to the scrapping yard. After one day in stormy weather , the connection to the tug was broken for the first time on January 23, 2013 and a second time on January 31, 2013. Then the Lyubov Orlova drove as a ghost ship through the North Atlantic .
When the unmanned ship was drifting onto oil platforms off the Canadian coast, the responsible Canadian authority Transport Canada sent the supply ship Atlantic Hawk on January 31, 2013 with the aim of keeping the ship away from offshore facilities. When the Lyubov Orlova drifted out of the Canadian 200-mile zone on February 4, 2013 , the authorities finally decided to leave it to its own devices and accept that it capsized. It was no longer in the Canadian sphere of responsibility, but in international waters.
Notes on the whereabouts
On February 23, 2013 to was Lyubov Orlova or one of its lifeboats belonging locator beacon at the position 51 ° 46 'N 035 ° 41' W activated. Since emergency beacons are triggered by contact with water, for example when the ship sinks, the Irish Coast Guard searched the area around the specified position and was unable to discover the ship. Because of this, it is believed that the Lyubov Orlova sank . According to different agency reports, a US secret service has found the driverless expedition ship floating 2,400 kilometers west of Ireland. Part of a lifeboat is said to have been found off the coast of Scotland in early 2014.
Technical data and equipment
The ship was powered by two eight-cylinder diesel engines (8M 35BF 62) built in Yugoslavia, each with an output of 1942 kW . The engines worked on two fixed propellers. The ship thus reached a speed of 17.2 knots . Four diesel generators with an output of 352 kW each were available for the power supply.
The facilities for the passengers were spread over four decks.
See also
Web links
- Vessel's details Lyubov Orlova , Russian Maritime Register of Shipping ( english )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Martin Cox: Lyubov Orlova Detained. MaritimeMatters, October 1, 2010, accessed February 13, 2016.
- ↑ a b Lyubov Orlova: Everyone hopes that the rat ship will finally sink. Die Welt , February 10, 2013, accessed February 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Warning of "acute threat". news.orf.at , February 24, 2013, accessed on February 13, 2016
- ↑ Orlova's emergency beacon activated. The Weekend telegraph, February 23, 2013, accessed February 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Stephen Rogers: Drifting Russian ship may have sunk 700 miles off coast. Irish Examiner , March 1, 2013, accessed February 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Ghost ship full of rats disappeared from radar. Die Welt, April 29, 2013.
- ^ Rat-Filled Ghost Ship Haunts UK Coastline. The Maritime Executive, January 23, 2014, accessed February 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Where is the ghost ship full of rats? Die Welt, January 25, 2014, accessed February 13, 2016 .