Dry cargo ship love. "Lyubov Orlova": a ghost ship worth a million

How fate is sometimes harsh-
Does not regret, does not grieve! ..
Motor ship "Lyubov Orlova"
The oceans are sailing.

The ghost of the great homeland! ..
Have you been to that country?
There is an actress with a clear face
She smiled generously at me.

We went to the cinema as to the temple of the Lord
The whole family before the war ...
Why in honest people
Has the mood changed today?

Where conciliarity began -
How were our people good?
In holes, hollows and piers
Hidden, do not disturb!

Late evening ... "Volga-Volga" -
In a close stuffy dugout ...
In the morning - into battle, but not long to wait:
The stars are already pale.

The fight is cruel ... Close to death.
The platoon is thinning every hour.
Where are you, sweet artist?
Remember our servicemen!

The guy is injured - who will help?
Not destined to die -
Sandruzhinitsa looks like
The actress in that movie!

Motor ship "Lyubov Orlova" -
No rudder and no sails.
Our life is a new symbol ...
Dream, whatever you say!

Reviews

You wrote a brilliant poem, suddenly, in the last stanza, confusing it. The last three lines are in need
I don’t dare to teach you, but a pause might be useful
Other nagging is insignificant (for example, my dad (infantryman 1942-45) never talked about cinema in dugouts)
Very interesting letter, I am glad that I found your poems

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- The situation with the Lyubov Orlova liner is indeed one of the most amazing epics of the Flying Dutchmen that have taken place today, - says specialist in the history of maritime disasters Dmitry Mazur... - At the beginning of 2013, this old liner was sent by its then owners to Dominican Republic for disposal. Orlov was towed by another vessel, there were no people on board. In the Atlantic Ocean, the caravan was caught in a storm, the tug burst under the pressure of the wind and waves, the sailors failed to "hook" the "Lyubov Orlov" again, and the uninhabited ship began its independent drift. Since then, this "Flying Dutchman" has been seen twice on the sea. The last time such a "rendezvous" was recorded in the winter of 2014, 2,400 km from the west coast of Ireland.

- So, now is the third and "final" meeting with "Orlova"?

- Judging by the photo posted in the media, this is the skeleton of a ship that has lain at the bottom of the sea for more than a dozen years, - explained head of the company "Investstroytrest" Vladimir Baranov, Who worked for 20 years in the Far Eastern Shipping Company. - A characteristic feature of any passenger ship is a powerful superstructure: that which is above the deck. Here the skeleton is all rusty, and the superstructure - whatever it may be - is completely "eaten away" by corrosion. The two-decker "Lyubov Orlova" went into an uncontrolled drift in January 2013. For those 5 incomplete years that he was in sea water, especially if he was afloat, the liner could not be so "eaten" by rust.

In addition, it is worth paying attention: the shipwreck was thrown onto a beach in California strictly perpendicular to the coastline. One gets the impression that he was being dragged by tractors. After all, no matter how large the waves, they are not able to throw the skeleton on the coast so far.

And one more fact. The unguided ship "Lyubov Orlova" was lost in the Atlantic. And in such a short time, it could not appear in the Pacific Ocean. This is simply not possible. So I think it's nothing more than a cheap setup.

- To whom can the found skeleton belong?

- It looks like a barge or a small tanker. But not on a passenger ship.

“According to some experts, most likely the wreck thrown onto the Californian beach belongs to the tanker“ Monte Carlo ”,” Dmitry Mazur specified. - This is a decommissioned vessel from 1932 to 1937. served as a floating casino and was the largest gaming ship operating on the resort coast of California. In 1937, the ex-tanker was torn off the anchors and thrown aground, where it remained homeless for a long time.

- What precautions are taken to tow a vessel for smelting?

- To tow the ship, a whole project is being developed, which without fail includes converting, - Baranov specified. - The so-called "envelope" is the sealing of all entrances to the superstructure, including the windows. This is to prevent the boat from picking up water and capsizing. In the project, the fastening scheme, the diameter and length of all cables are also very carefully calculated. And the captain of any port in the world does not have the right to release the ship to sea in tow, if he, as well as the port control, is not presented with this project.

- If we assume that the passenger ship "Lyubov Orlova" remains afloat, how much can it be estimated based on the cost of scrap metal?

- He has a dry weight of about 3 thousand tons. Multiplying by 400 dollars, the total ship "Lyubov Orlova" can cost about 1 million 200 thousand dollars.

Image caption In their best years "Lyubov Orlova" sailed the seas of the Arctic and Antarctic

The former Soviet cruise ship "Lyubov Orlova", which was lost in the Atlantic during towing almost a year ago, most likely sank, says the head of the Irish Coast Guard, Chris Reynolds.

There has been no reliable information on the whereabouts of the abandoned vessel since April last year, representatives of the British Coast Guard told the BBC's Russian service.

However, reports circulated this week in the British press this week, citing experts asserting that winter storms could have carried the old vessel to the shores of Ireland, Scotland or England.

The only living inhabitants of the lost ship, if it is still afloat, are rats, forced to eat each other so as not to die of hunger. Experts warn that if the "Lyubov Orlov" waves are thrown onto the British coast, the animals inhabiting it could be dangerous.

Threat to navigation

“At the beginning of last year, our Canadian colleagues informed us that they had lost a ship in the Atlantic Ocean,” Reynolds told the BBC's Russian Service. “This is a very large vessel with a displacement of more than four thousand tons and poses a threat to navigation. as it has no identification lights, and all electronic systems are disabled. "

Then, Chris Reynolds continues, the search for the ship went on for three months from the air, as well as using satellite tracking systems.

“As a result, we found a Spanish fishing vessel, but not Lyubov Orlova. However, last year we recorded the termination of the emergency sensor signal. Of course, we cannot say what kind of sensor it was, but we assume that it is about ship that sank in the Atlantic. And it is possible that it was this ship, "- said the head of the Irish Coastal Service in an interview with the BBC Russian Service.

"All in the past"

The story of a "ghost ship", the only passengers of which are supposedly cannibal rats, went around the pages of many British newspapers.

There are, of course, coastal services, but there is also a huge army of people who go to sea in private ships. "Ghost Ship" May Catch Their Eyes Steph Brown

Built in 1976 at the shipyards of the former Yugoslavia, the cruise ship "Lyubov Orlova" until 1999 was part of the Far Eastern Shipping Company. Then it was sold to a foreign cruise company, and the ship began to surf the Arctic and Antarctic.

Since 2010, words such as "commercial disputes", "arrest" and "scrap metal" have been heard around the ship. After two years of inactivity in the Canadian port of St. John's, the ship was sent to the Dominican Republic for sawing in the literal sense of the word.

But "the ship and the man", apparently, was not destined to become scrap metal. During a severe storm, the ropes with the help of which the ship were towed burst, and for some time the abandoned motor ship drifted near the Canadian coast, threatening oil platforms.

Then the Canadian authorities took him out of harm's way into neutral waters. After that, a new phase in the life of the ship began. He became, quite officially, a ghost ship.

According to experts, the cost of a liner even as a pile of metal can be hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Search engine story

According to Pim de Ruds, a diver, instructor and professional search engine from Belgium, such a case - finding a drifting vessel - is rare.

In an interview with the BBC Russian Service, Pym said that immediately after receiving news that "Lyubov Orlova" may be drifting in the Atlantic Ocean, he got down to business.

If I find this ship, it will be my Pim de Ruds, search engine pro

Pym and his team made their first seven-day expedition in February 2013. “We had to stop it because of the weather,” he laments.

The second sortie - now three weeks long - was in March last year. According to the search engine, he did not even have an approximate data on the location of the vessel, and the expedition ended in nothing.

"If I find this ship, it will be mine," says Pym. He expects to help out about a million dollars on it.

However, surfing the ocean blindly is too expensive. "So the search will continue only if someone reports that the ship has caught their eye. Most likely, it will be the coastguards of Ireland, Spain or another country, where the ship can be carried."

As for the allegations of cannibal rats on board the Lyubov Orlova, Pym de Ruds believes they are completely unfounded. And although the British newspapers attribute them to Pym, he himself disowns these words.

“Even if there were rats, they all went to the next world,” he says.

Social media legend

As often happens in such cases, the legend of the abandoned "Lyubov Orlova" quickly took root in the virtual space.

At the beginning of last year, the blog "Where is Lyubov Orlova" appeared.

“I found out about this ship on the Internet. My wife and I began to discuss how we could find a drifting ship. Of course, we had no money to search for. Expensive equipment - drones or satellites - too, - says Stef. - Then and came up with the idea to create a blog where all information about this ship could be collected. "

Steph sees his blog as a kind of experiment that can demonstrate the power of the Internet as a powerful synthesizer and information collector.

"There are, of course, coastal services, but there is also a huge army of people who go to sea on private ships. The" ghost ship "can catch their eye," - said an amateur search engine.

Thanks to Steph, former cruise ship passengers and even Captain Ricardo Ferro, whose ship towed Lyubov Orlova from the Canadian port of St. John's, began to write to his blog.

As the captain wrote, the reason for the breakage of the steel cable was waves, the height of which reached 10-12 meters. Ricardo Ferro believes that the drifting ship can be found, and he has plans in this regard.

In addition to this blog, a Lyubov Orlova account appeared on Twitter, and a page of the same name on Facebook. So the legend of "Lyubov Orlova" continues to live.

MOSCOW, January 26 - RIA Novosti. The coastal services of a number of European countries agree with the earlier suggestion that the Lyubov Orlova motor ship, which had been drifting without a crew for almost a year, sank in the Atlantic Ocean, Irish newspaper Independent reports.

Until 1999, the cruise liner "Lyubov Orlova" as part of the Far Eastern Shipping Company made passenger flights to Sakhalin, Kamchatka, along the coast of Primorsky Krai and to Japan, after which it was sold to a foreign company. In 2010, the ship was arrested for debt. In 2012, the ship was again sold to another foreign shipping company. From Canada, the ship in tow was supposed to be delivered to the Dominican Republic for scrap, however, during a storm in the Atlantic, a towing cable burst, and the 90-meter vessel has been drifting in the ocean since January 24, 2013. The drift of "Lyubov Orlova" caused a stir in social networks and the media of many countries.

British media reported this week that winter storms from Atlantic Ocean, the vessel began to drift towards Great Britain and Ireland and should already approach the shores of one of the countries. Coastal services investigating the area, which never found the ship, believe that it sank.

“We believe that the ship most likely sank, given the storms that have passed in the region. We searched for it (the ship) for two or three months using satellites, we were assisted by the Air Force. Our professional belief is that the ship sank. We discussed this with representatives of the UK, Norway and Iceland and we all agreed that the ship probably sank, "the publication quotes the words of the Irish Coast Guard officer Chris Reynolds. At the same time, Reynolds noted that, despite the conclusions made by professionals, the fact of flooding is not 100% established in the absence of evidence, but in this case it is impossible to obtain it.

According to Fox News, the abandoned ship, nicknamed the "ghost ship" in the media, has significant financial value - approximately one million euros. First of all, because of the metal of which the ship's hull and its superstructure are composed.

How the "ghost ships" drifted

Japanese fishing vessel "Maru" ("Luck") drifted and crossed Pacific Ocean after the devastating earthquake in Japan on March 11, 2011. The ship was first discovered at the end of March 2012 by a Canadian Air Force patrol. It was reported that the Japanese side, after receiving notification of the discovery of the trawler, managed to identify the ship owner, who did not express a desire to return the ship. There was a minimum amount of fuel on board the "Luck" and there was no cargo, since before the earthquake in Japan the vessel was intended for disposal. The fate of the crew of the "Good luck" was not reported. As the vessel posed a threat to navigation, the US Coast Guard fired on the Mara in April 2012, after which the trawler sank.