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Dalniy Vostok, a 104-metre (341 ft), 5,700-ton trawler, was built in 1963 as a whaling factory ship, and had international number IMO 8730429. [6] The vessel was constructed as Stende (named for the city of Stende, Latvia) by the ship builders GP Chernomorskiy Sudostroitelnyy Zavod, [a] Nikolayev, Soviet Union (now Mykolaiv, Ukraine). [7]
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A search is underway for 17 crew members who remain unaccounted for after a fishing vessel sunk early Monday in the Barents Sea. Authorities are also working to determine what caused the Russian ...
British postcard depicting the Russian warships firing on the fishing vessels. The Dogger Bank incident (also known as the North Sea Incident, the Russian Outrage or the Incident of Hull) occurred on the night of 21/22 October 1904, when the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy mistook civilian British fishing trawlers from Kingston upon Hull in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea for ...
The incident almost led to war between Britain and Russia. [7] The Russian warships illuminated the trawlers with their searchlights and opened fire. The British trawler Crane was sunk, and its captain and first mate were killed. Four other trawlers were damaged, and six other fishermen were wounded, one of whom died a few months later.
Naval trawlers are vessels built along the lines of a fishing trawler but fitted out for naval purposes; they were widely used during the First and Second World Wars. Some, known in the Royal Navy as "Admiralty trawlers", were purpose-built to naval specifications; others were adapted from civilian use.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's interior ministry has prepared draft legislation that would force foreigners to sign a "loyalty agreement" forbidding them from criticising official policy, discrediting ...