Talk:SS Admiral Nakhimov

message: I removed the following trivial fact until it can be proved by providing citations
"Captain Tkachenko changed his name to Taylor and moved to Israel. He later sank another ship off the coast of New Zealand."
I find this highly unlikly that such a man would ever be allowed to take command of another ship and sink it. Mieciu K 15:19, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Captain Tkachenko

message: In July 1974 my wife and I were in Sochi and we were the only westerners to see the Admiral Nakhimov have a horrendous collision with the quay.
As we strolled around the harbour we saw the Admiral Nakhimov pull away from the quay with a bunch of excited Russians on board heading out for a cruise. We waved to each other and strolled further. After about 5 minutes we heard a clanging sound behind us and turned round to locate this very loud sound. The clanging was caused by the anchor chains banging on the hull. Both anchors were dropped and the ship was heading stern first at about 10 knots. When we saw it like this it was about 300 metres from the key and heading for it at a 90 degree angle. People on board were panicking and screaming. We ran towards the anticipated impact point, but when we were 150 metres from this point the ship hit the quay with a huge bang. The stern lifted up as it mounted the quay.  People were hurt - maybe killed as they slid over into the water or landed hard on the quay being pitched over the rail. There was blood. As we ran towards it the police appeared and threatened us with drawn oistols so we had to beat it quickly.  Instinct told me to slip away as fast as possible. We returned quickly to our hotel. 
In the evening it was dark and we went out to a sea trip on a catermeran from the harbour. The Nakhimov was still there perched forlonly up the quay. There were lights all around it but no one was working. Next day it was screened from public view. We talked to two beautiful Ukrainian families we had met on the beach. We had become very friendly with them. We took them to the circus (our treat)and the two men of the family said “don 't say a word about this until you are out of the country you never can tell what may happen to people who talk about things like this" Two days later the ship had been towed away in the night. 
They also told us that this was a "well-built German ship" and they suspected someone had been drinking. We could believe this because we had seen police men on point duty who were drunk and swigging vodka as they directed traffic!  We followed their advice but I was a bit jumpy as we travelled on to Leningrad for another few days stay. There was not a mention of this incident in any media but we had seen people being maimed and killed. If this had happened in a British port it would have been reported all over the world. 
Twelve years later whilst living in Plymouth, Devon we heard of the sinking of the Admiral Nikhimov and once again we remembered that terrible 1974 collision. We speculated that once again, someone had been drinking and maybe the ship's structure had been weakened in July 1974 ...
Kimslad (talk) 16:15, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Personal account

message: The article claims some passengers were from the Russian Federation, which didn’t exist at the time of the accident in 1986. Would it be accurate to say they were from the Russian SFSR instead? Is that what the author meant? Grjako (talk) 10:01, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  “Russian Federation?” 

message: The article cited below explains what exactly happened during the SS Admiral Nakhimov tragedy on the night of September 1, 1986. Taken out of The New York Times, the article updated the United States as the accident unfolded. The author includes what the First Deputy Minister of the Russian Merchant Fleet told about the accident and what happened promptly after. The article is straight forward and modest, staying away from biased points on who to blame. (Pjwinder93 (talk) 16:58, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Citation

message: This version (English) says the ship was registered in Odessa from 1947, but it was only salvaged in 1949. Am I missing something here? (Other versions, Russian, German, don't have the 1947 date.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.136.17.139 (talk) 18:46, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  A little mystery here 

message: There were eight pre-war military large hospital ships. Four more were added through conversions. Then twenty-one small craft carried the designation by 1941 or sooner. Then there were four large ships and twenty-one smaller ones from Austria. Some of these may have been river craft. A list is here (https://www.feldgrau.com/WW2-German-Kriegsmarine-Hospitalships).  --Paul, in Saudi (talk) 03:15, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of German Hospital Ships

message: While remaining a hospitalship, she evacuated civilians from the baltic area in 1945. Also evacuated were soldiers. The soldiers were legitimate occupants of this ship as they were in need of medical attention...sort of...?--Stat-ist-ikk (talk) 22:45, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soldier transport....?