Bye, bye, MV 'MAGDALENA OLDENDORFF'...
...the first cut is the deepest
by Viola Evers
When we opened the last edition of the German shipping magazine Auf Kurs, this photo
remembered some breathtaking moments 10 years ago. The picture of MV 'MAGDALENA
OLDENDORFF' was presumably taken sometime between June and December, 2002, when
the ship hibernated in Muskegbukta on the edge of the Weddell Sea in the Antarctica
manned with our own crew of 16 and an additional volunteering Argentinean doctor Dr.
Juan Carlos Campana of the ice breaker ARA 'ALMIRANTE IRIZAR'. The list of the courageous
remaining crew with their ranks at that time was as follows:
Captain Ivan Dikiy
Cleaner George Ussher
Chief Officer Leonid Dobrovolsky
Electrician Oleg Kurchev
Second Officer Aleksandr Lizunov
Radio Officer Wieslaw Nawrocki
Chief Engineer Kostyantyn Merkotan
Able Seaman Mohamed Asir
Third Engineer Andriy Pavlenko
Able Seaman Ahmed Saeed
Fourth Engineer Jose Elo Almosa Capapas
Motorman Wilfredo D. Bolompo
Deckhand Christian F. Fenete
Motorman Ruperto G. Cardenas
Storekeeper Mohamed Hafeez
Cook Saturnino G. Granzo
The MV 'MAGDALENA OLDENDORFF'
was built in 1983 by Valmet. This SA-15
type ship was one of a merchant vessel
series which was the first to be designed
for all-year trade on the Northern Sea
Route.
This ship of an extremely robust design
and with the highest ice class was built
to resist the Antarctica...but in the end
not the Indian flame cutters of the Alang
demolition yard. There she had her date
with the hangman already on 12th November,
2011, for her last rendezvous
with the beach.
So long, and thanks for all the nice
time...
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