Word: freighter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just 45 minutes after it got under way, the pleasure trip turned to disaster. The 41,000-ton Soviet freighter Pyotr Vasev suddenly loomed out of the darkness. The Admiral Nakhimov's deck officers warned it off by radio, but the big cargo ship bore down steadily and struck the starboard side of the passenger liner. "I was in my cabin when the blow came," said Chief Purser Victor Prosvirnev. "There was a power blackout. The emergency diesel generator came on, but in two or three minutes power failed again as the feeder switchboard was submerged...
...liner sank instantly due to a very unfortunate blow struck by the freighter," Deputy Maritime Fleet Minister Leonid Nedyak told a press conference in Moscow less than 48 hours after the accident. "The point of impact was between the engine room and the boiler room and practically ripped the ship open." There was no time, he said, to launch lifeboats, though many of the survivors, among them Captain Markov, were able to hang on to inflatable rafts deployed from the deck...
...duty officer started calling it by radio. We took its bearing and realized that the ship would cross our path. After a few moments came the Pyotr Vasev's answer: 'Don't worry. We shall steer clear of each other. We shall do what is needed.' " Yet the freighter failed to change course. Another newspaper report charged that the Admiral Nakhimov's captain was negligent. Both captains were arrested and are in custody pending the outcome of a government investigation, headed by Politburo Member Geidar Aliev, to determine the cause of the accident...
...year war between Iran and Iraq, the Soviet Union has been Iraq's chief arms supplier. Last week Soviet ships for the first time became Iranian targets. As it steamed up the Persian Gulf, the Soviet freighter Pyotr Yemtsov was seized by Iranian gunships. The vessel was searched and released after 36 hours, when its cargo proved to be construction materials for Kuwait rather than supplies for Iraq. A second Soviet ship, the Tutov, was stopped briefly in the gulf and then allowed to continue...
...October 24, 1985, Miroslaw Medved jumped into the Mississippi River from a Soviet freighter and swam frantically, seeking asylum. For screw up number one, enter the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The INS, at its bureaucratic best, returned Medved, who was kicking and screaming, to his ship, clearly against his will...