MS Toyvo Antikaynen

Soviet ship Toyvo Antikaynen at anchor. Photo dated between 1974 and February 1986.
History
Name:
  • Toyvo Antikaynen
  • (Russian: Тойво Антикайнен)
  • Call sign: UWQZ
  • IMO Number: 7012727
Namesake: Kommunist class of cargo ships
Owner: 25 of April 1970–1999: Black Sea Shipping Company, Soviet Union USSR
Operator: 25 of April 1970–1999: Black Sea Shipping Company, Soviet Union USSR
Port of registry: 25 of April 1970–1999: Odessa, Soviet Union USSR
Builder: Gdansk Shipyard in honor of Lenin, Poland Poland.
Fate: scrapped in 1999 at Calcuta[1]
General characteristics
Type: freighter, tweendecker
Tonnage:
  • GT 12,636 mt[2]
  • Summer DW 10437 mt
Displacement: 16000 mt
Length:
  • overall 507.0 ft (154.54 m)
  • between perpendiculars 478.7 ft (145.92 m)
Beam: 67.7 ft (20.62 m)
Draught: 29.5 ft (8.98 m)
Propulsion: Diesel "Sulzer" 6 cilindrs, 9600 HP. Single screw propeller.
Speed: 15,25 knots
Capacity:
  • 5 cargo holds.
  • GRT 9,883 register tons.[2]
Crew: 34 persons about in 1985-1986

Toyvo Antikaynen (Russian: Тойво Антикайнен) was a merchant ship of Black Sea Shipping Company (Soviet Union), tweendecker type general cargo ship, project B401. This ship is one of the Kommunist class of cargo ships.[2] The ship was named in honor of communist leader in Finland Toyvo Antikaynen, who was frendly to the USSR.

Only two ships of Kommunist class cargo ships had additional figure in the built number (shipyard number). That were Djuzeppe di Vittorio (number B40/101 - B40/91) and Toyvo Antikaynen (number B40/102 - B40/92). Can be it was due to this ships were built on another shipyard in Poland then other Kommunist class cargo ships.[3]

Last years of the ship

The vessel arrested

The crew of the arrested ship Toivo Antikainen was breathing fumes in Calcutta, in anticipation of the ship's scrapping and salary for two years. Toivo Antikainen was moored at the mooring buys near the shore. To him chalilis Other ships from Around the World moored alongside on arrival for scrapping. The crews left the doomed ships and rats, striped and spotted Exotic, ran from deserted ships to the ship signed to Odessa port. Like pterodactyls flying mutant mice with a wingspan of up to six meters tried to reach Toivo at dusk. The vessel was glowing like a frying pan: crew slept on the covers of the holds, wet sheets dried out in half an hour. Mosquitoes bited mercilessly. When one kind of parasites disappeared the others annoyed according to the season. Insect-torturers handed over showily and the crew of the arrested ship had not change. We were using an inflatable raft to reach the shore as we had to beg from ships or to pull teeth by pliers of local medicaster for nothing. But shell of the life-rafts corroded by the floating oil in abundance on the surface.

SOS
SOS in Morse code
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When "the knocks on the door" of the captain of "Toivo Antikainen" Albert Makeev reached the Embassy of Ukraine, that was located in Delhi on one of the floors of high-rise hotel, diplomats complained about the cramped conditions and domestic difficulties. Hungry fainting increased and the captain sent SOS to all passing close ships on the 27 of December 1997: "The crew completed to eat the boat's supply of provisions. There is no fresh water, fuel and medicines on board". The distress signal was not sent by the ship perishing in the ocean, it was sent by the ship moored a hundred yards from shore. It was an unprecedented case. The Harbour Master responded only the SOS. The crew received a modest amount for food and money was enough for short time. It was the last SOS of Black Sea Shipping Company and soon Toyvo was sold at auction, scrapped and her name disappeared from the reports of marine newspapers for ever. Toivo Antikainen agonized in 1996-1997 when Black Sea Shipping Company was particularly shock exceeded the plan to deliver the scrap metal: 59 ships were taken out of service from August 1995 to March 1997.[4]

The fate.

The ship Toyvo Antikaynen was scrapped in 1999 at Calcuta, India. She was one of the last scrapped Kommunist-class ships.[5]

Gallery

  1. ^ a b Единое око. >> Планирование перехода: Учебное пособие.

References

  1. ↑ Суда Украины > Одесское морское пароходство > Грузовые суда
  2. 1 2 3 Marine Trafic > Toyvo Antikaynen
  3. ↑ Грузовые суда Черноморского пароходства: типы, фото, история.
  4. ↑ Плавание после смерти, или Под горку к пароходной бойне. >> Разделка.
  5. ↑ LiveJournal > Потери Черноморского Морского Пароходства в результате нэзалэжности. Дата: 26 October 2013.

See also

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