Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impact there was a thundering shudder, followed by the wail of the ship's siren. In one of the Maxim Gorky's restaurants, as the pianist was playing The Green, Green Grass of Home, a heavy loudspeaker crashed down on the instrument. The passengers, almost all West German pensioners who had boarded in Bremerhaven, stumbled on deck into freezing...
...ship's bow dipped ever deeper into the ice-packed sea, members of the 377-man crew passed out blankets and vodka and helped people into lifeboats. When launched, they were soon surrounded by giant ice floes. "While we were sitting in the boats, we thought this was going to be another Titanic," said Harry Delor, 72, of Dusseldorf. "Some panicked, some prayed. We thought the end was near...
...could the Maxim Gorky, which was equipped with radar and other modern navigational aids, encounter so serious a mishap? Norwegian experts suggested that the ship, commanded by Captain Marat Galimov, who apparently was on his first voyage in the Arctic seas, may have been cruising at excessive speed. When it struck the ice, according to Senja captain Sigurd Kleiven, the Soviet ship was steaming at about 18 knots in an area where Norwegian maritime officials say no more than 3 to 5 knots is advisable at this time of year. Said Bjorn Sorensen, a Lutheran parish priest on Spitsbergen...
Only the venue has changed. Instead of Moscow, Renko must navigate the intricacies of the Polar Star, a huge Soviet factory ship plying the waters of the Bering Sea. Its mission is both prosaic and delicate. It must gather and process 50,000 tons of seafood to contribute to the nourishing of the Soviet people. But its suppliers, who do the actual fishing in exchange for cash, are American trawlers...
...lifeless reappearance raises a number of troubling questions. Murder? Bad. Suicide? Much better. In the good old days, the inconvenient matter could have been put on ice until the ship returned to its home port of Vladivostok, where the official party whitewash would have explained everything. Not now. The ship's captain understands the new realities: "The problem is the Americans. They will watch to see whether we conduct an open and forthright investigation...