shipwreck "Lieutenant Zatsarennyj", Black sea, Ukraine
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Andrey Nekrasov / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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4029 x 2657 px | 34.1 x 22.5 cm | 13.4 x 8.9 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
28 August 2009Location:
Snake Island (Zmiinyi Island or Serpent Island), Black Sea, Odessa, Ukraine, Eastern EuropeMore information:
My article: Mystery of the Lost Lieutenant ... We managed to have primary identification just on the island. Among the memorial plaques bound to the wall of the lighthouse only one matched the examined ship according to the date of its death and its type. This was how the word “Zatsarenny” appeared to be a part of our lexicon. It was the Imperial Navy fleet destroyer wrecked near Zmeinyj on June 17th, 1917. There followed a list of dead crew members where ensigns and telegraphists figured along with the naval ranks. Of course the commemorative plaque didn’t throw light on wreck’s circumstances, but the exact name of the vessel was a lot to start with. Nowadays, in the age of information technology, to find omnibus information about a naval ship seemed only a matter of paperwork. Further field work was focused on the primary object description, photo and video filming. Filling of information gaps we left until we were back to the continent. It turned out that the Internet and special literature gave only extremely poor data on military operations in the Black Sea during the First World War: few documents of that time had been transferred into an electronic form. We could hardly find nuggets of information. But when the search fructified it turned out that we were still too far from solving the mystery of the sunken vessel. In 1917 the First World War fever rocks Europe. Military operations are taking place in the Black Sea. The German light cruiser Breslau is particularly active on the Russian territory. Using its high-speed possibilities, the elusive cruiser suddenly appears in different parts of the sea, has a bash, and disappears behind the horizon at full swing. One of those dashing raids is the prehistory of the last war actions of the torpedo-boat destroyer Lieutenant Zatsarenny....