Mikhail Lermontov
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Mikhail
Lermontov, named after one of Russia`s great poets from
Caucasus, was an ocean liner built by V.EB
Mathias Thesen Werft in East Germany, and was
launched in December 1970. She was operated by
Baltic Sea Shipping Company on the route Leningrad to New
York, and was upgraded to a cruise liner in 1982. During a
two week cruise around New Zealand with 372 passengers and
a crew of 348 men, she ran aground after an navigational
error 16. February 1986 at Marlborough Sound. She was
firmly stuck for almost three hours before she slid of and
disappeared in the deep. One man from the crew lost his
life in the accident. The wreck rest today on her
starboard side a depth of 30 to 40 meter at Port Gore in
Marlborough Sound.
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