Sadko (icebreaker)

Lintros

Built in Newcastle , UK for the Reid Newfoundland Company railway company in 1913 . Named "Lintros" ( eng. SS Lintrose ) in honor of the Scottish countryside. It is the same with the Bruce lead vessel ^[2] , however, like the next in the series, the Kyle syship ( eng. Kyle ), was built at the shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne , instead of Glasgow .

From 1913 to 1915 he worked as a mail and passenger ferry in the Newfoundland area, on the Port-au-Basque – New Sidney line through the Cabot Strait ^[3] , with 80 first-class passenger seats and 150 second-class passengers.

Sadko

In 1915, Lintros (along with another ferry of the Cabot Strait , Bruce ) was acquired by the Russian government to operate on the Murmansk - Arkhangelsk line . In 1916 it was renamed "Sadko".

On June 16, 1916 ^[4] during the transportation of cargo for the construction of the Kandalaksha-Murmansk railway, the Sadko sank in Kandalaksha Bay , bumping into a pitfall ^[5] .

After 17 years, October 14, 1933 raised by the forces of EPRON (the head of the operation of the ship lifting T. I. Bobritsky ). A year later, on July 9, 1934, the first Sadko went to sea after repair.

On September 7, 1934, an expedition to Sadko, under the command of Captain A.K. Burke , accompanied by the icebreaker Yermak , founded a polar station on Solitude Island . The equipment and personnel were intended for the station on Cape Olovyanny ( Severnaya Zemlya ), but the ice situation did not allow it to break through and, by order of the Glavsevmorput, the unloading place was moved. The construction of the station and the first wintering on the island were started by 18 people (including 9 construction workers) under the leadership of S. V. Shmanev .

In 1935, the First High Latitude Expedition of the Glavsevmorputi under the leadership of G. A. Ushakov was undertaken at Sadko. A world record of free swimming beyond the Arctic Circle was set (82 ° 4'N). The island of Ushakov is discovered.

In the summer of 1937, an expedition to Sadko (Captain Nikolai Ivanovich Khromtsov ), led by Professor Wiese , sailed from Murmansk to the islands of De Long . However, the tasks were changed and the icebreaker was sent to help ships in the Kara Sea and the Laptev Sea . The attempt to overcome the ice was unsuccessful and Sadko was also blocked by ice in the area of ​​the Novosibirsk Islands

Together with the icebreakers “ Malygin ” and “ Georgy Sedov ”, “Sadko” drifted in the ice north from Belkovsky Island to 83 ° 05 'north latitude.

The expedition to Sadko did not have sufficient supplies for such a long wintering, however, due to difficult weather conditions, some of the expedition members and crew could be evacuated only in April 1938 .

The Sadko itself was freed from ice captivity only in September 1938 with the help of the Yermak icebreaker

On September 11, 1941 , on the way from Dixon to Franz Josef Land , Sadko ran into a previously unknown submarine bank near the Izvestia CEC islands in the Kara Sea and sank. One man died, the rest of the crew was rescued by the icebreaker " Lenin ". The captain of the icebreaker A. G. Korelsky was accused of sabotage and shot ^[6] .

In honor of the Sadko icebreaker, one of the islands of the Nordenscheld Archipelago and a border icebreaking patrol ship built in 1968, as well as a street in Nizhny Novgorod, are named.

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• A. A. Kiselev EPRON's work on lifting ships in the northern seas
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• "Sadko" icebreaker
• The Alphabetical Fleet of Reed. SS Lintrose

• Chiker N., Chernov A. “Sadko” out of the sea // Editorial: V.I.Bardin et al .; Comp. A.V. Shumilov. The Arctic Circle 1986. - M .: Thought, 1986.