SS Indigirka

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Soviet Union 1923 Soviet Union

The Indigirka, (Russian Индигирка ) was a steamship.

History

The ship was built in 1919 by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, and also ran in 1919 with the name Lake Galva from the stack. In the time of the commissioning until the sale in 1938 to the Soviet Union wore it several different names. With the acquisition by the USSR, it was renamed in Indigirka.

On December 8, 1939, the Indigirka left the port of Magadan on the Sea of ​​Okhotsk with course Vladivostok. The command was Captain Nikolai Lapshin Lavrentevich. On board were 39 crew members, 249 fishermen and their families, 50 prisoners with guarding and 835 prisoners with specific technical skills, their punishment had been converted to work for the preparation of an impending war.

On December 13, 1939 at 2:20 clock local time, other sources indicate that on 12 December 1939 the ship Soya ran into a snow storm of the coast of Japan near the village Sarufutsu in Japanese sub-prefecture due. The captain had tried to retract his ship in the La Pérouse Strait. The Japanese rescue workers were able to rescue the captain and most of the team, guards, and fishermen of the page lying in shallow water boat.

On December 16, after the Japanese rescue team were able to open the trunk with welding torches, they found in the hull only 28 survivors, one of whom later died. More than 700 dead prisoners were found. A total of 741 people died in the sinking of the Indigirka. Later there was an eponymous ship that was involved in Operation Anadyr.