Rusalka
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Rusalka
was a monitor built for the Imperial Russian Navy in St.
Petersburg, and was launched in 1867. She had a rather
straightforward and mundane career in the Imperial Navy. Under a
journey from Reval in Estonia to Helsingfors in Finland,
she disappeared under a storm with all hands lost 7.
September 1893. The wreck was found in July 2003 by the
Mare research vessel on a depth of 33 to 74 meter in open
waters, thirteen nautical miles south of Helsinki. As a
curiosity there
are still a few monitors left in the world, like the SMS
Leitha, Huascar in Peru and
HNLMS Buffel
in Rotterdam to mention a few. Or the submerged wrecks
of HMAS Cerberus, USS Monitor and Monitor Thor .
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 Picture: Monitor Charodeika, sister ship of Rusalka Wikipedia, Public domain |
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