Sunken ships in the Black Sea: a review, history and interesting facts

The history of the ships sunk in the Black Sea is so great that no one has undertaken for its full and reliable description so far. The reason is that even the number of remains of the ships that are resting on its bottom is unknown. And there is no way to count them. Technical problems, depths and other difficulties as time passes, are solved and, surely, will be solved in the future. But time itself is an insurmountable obstacle, hiding the ships deep in mud or destroying them without a trace with the help of rust and rotting processes.

The causes of the death of ships

Warm waters of the Black Sea are navigable for a long time. About the first navigators we learn from the legends of Ancient Greece. Trying to stay closer to the shore, they crashed against the rocks during storms and bad weather. They also reached our shores. Ancient amphorae with wine, incense and oils, which our seabed researchers find, speak about this.

A variety of ships died during military campaigns, which these waters saw in abundance. Wooden sailboats and modern vessels, getting holes, went under the water. Most often, together with his team. The Black Sea bottom is a huge mass grave, which continues to replenish throughout the history of navigation.

But there are other reasons for the death of ships sunk in the Black Sea. Here are some documentary facts.

Flooding of ships in the Tsemess bay

Not far from the Novorossiysk port in June 1918, by order of Vladimir Lenin, Soviet sailors flooded the ships. The Black Sea Fleet is not mentioned in the Treaty of Brest, but due to the circumstances, it was demanded for extradition by the German side in Sevastopol. The Soviet leadership, compelled to accept this condition along with other demands, sent two orders to Novorossiysk, where the ships were located. The official order required Captain 1 rank Tikhmenev to take the ships to Sevastopol and hand them over to the representatives of Germany, a secret order - to flood them not far from Novorossiysk.

The Commander, after long and difficult discussions of both orders with the ships' committees, decided to execute the official version. But not all the commands obeyed him, and 16 military ships, including the battleship "Free Russia", were flooded. With the raised flags "I'm dead, but do not give up", the ships went under the water.

The fate of ships and people after flooding

The ships departing for Sevastopol remained in the service of Germany until its defeat, and then became part of the Russian squadron. Tikhmenev fought on the White side, and the Bolsheviks led by the flooding, Raskolnikov, Kukel and Glebov-Avilov, later occupied prominent posts in the USSR, but were repressed in the late 1930s.

The fate of ships sunk in the Black Sea was more positive. Two years after the events in Tsemesskaya Bay, their gradual recovery, recovery and further exploitation began. At the bottom there were only two ships: "Free Russia" and "Loud".

Monument to sailors-heroes with the inscription: "I'm dying, but I'm not giving up!" Is installed on the Sukhum highway. A huge granite stone lists the names of all the flooded ships with the exact coordinates of the places of their temporary (or permanent) stay. But for almost a hundred years historians and sailors continue to argue about how it was necessary to act in that far year to save the Black Sea fleet.

The death of "Admiral Nakhimov"

August 31, 1986 the story of the death of a large passenger ship "Admiral Nakhimov" caused a shock and desperate helplessness before the formulation of the cause of the accident: "the human factor." Comparison of this event with the death of the Titanic in 1912 from a collision with an iceberg had the right to exist only because too many people died on our ship: 423 people out of 1243 (for comparison: 1496 people died on the Titanic). But we had a warm sea, and there were no icebergs. There were only decisions of two captains and one helper.

"Admiral Nakhimov" (cruise steamer) left Novorossiysk in Sochi late in the evening. The weather is good, the sea is calm, the passengers were having fun or having a rest. Captain Markov, a man with vast experience, calmly led his ship out of the bay. The only vessel going to the port at that time was Petr Vasev, a dry cargo ship with Captain Tkachenko at the head. He said that he misses Admiral Nakhimov in the gates of the bay first. At 23:00, during this maneuver, Captain Markov, having handed over the watch to his assistant Chudnovsky, leaves the wheelhouse.

In the course of the investigation, which was conducted by the government commission, much remained unclear for ordinary, uninitiated, secrets citizens. Why are the two captains on the catastrophically approaching forehead in the forehead courts, seeing this by radar and with their own eyes, did nothing to save the situation. The watchmen on both ships pointed to them for the approach of the accident, asked who was missing whom, but what happened happened.

Two huge machinations collided, despite desperate attempts to change something in the last minute. "Admiral Nakhimov" for 8 minutes went to the bottom with its passengers, replenishing the ranks of sunken ships in the Black Sea.

The team of "Peter Vasev" together with the ships that came from the port to the aid, conducted rescue operations. Assistant Chudnovsky went to his cabin and stayed aboard the dying ship. Both surviving captains were tried, they received for 15 years.

The military ship "Liman"

The history of hard-to-explain disasters does not end there. Most recently, on April 28, 2017, the world exploded in numerous reports that a Russian warship sank in the Black Sea, colliding with a Yozasif-H cattle-carrying vessel flying under the flag of Togo. All crew members were rescued and delivered to Russia, and the ship "Liman" lies off the coast of Turkey at a depth of 80 meters.

It was built in 1970 in the Polish shipyards and worked in the Baltic Sea for the first few years. In 1974, he was transferred to the Black Sea Navy, to a separate reconnaissance division N519. As a scout, he was following the ships of a possible enemy, by his negotiations, he could use the high-tech weapon "Needle". To fulfill its mission, it was equipped with sets of special reconnaissance equipment and a modern radar system "Don", a hydroacoustic system "Bronze" and some other secret devices.

The wrecked ship "Liman" in the Black Sea, while on alert, got a hole and in a few hours went to the bottom.

A diversion or a complete fog?

When you read the reason stated by the military officials why the Russian ship sank in the Black Sea, you are perplexed, bewildered and ashamed. It is in this sequence. It turns out that the spy ship, stuffed with secret electronic expensive equipment, could not see the animal carrier in the fog.

Maybe that's why I want so much to believe the Fleet Support Movement, which announced a possible diversion. In their opinion, the "Liman", which worked effectively off the coast of Syria, caused discontent of the US military forces present here. In order to prevent the scout from appearing at a particular point at a specific hour, the cattle truck was subtly exposed to it. Admiral V. Kravchenko considers the death of the "Liman" an event out of the ordinary.

The fact that the Russian ship sank in the Black Sea, there is only one irrefutable fact: the team is alive. Probably, we never and never will see in this fog.