Крушение. Плавбаза “Пионерск“ г.

г. 01:25 ч. Pionersk The area around Shetland has long been used by Russian factory ships (otherwise known as Klondykers) anchoring offshore for many weeks to provide the Russian fishing fleet with a base close to the fishing grounds to offload their fish for processing allowing them to return to the fishing grounds more quickly than if they were to return to their home port. The steel motor vessel Pionersk was one of these huge ships. Launched from the yard of Stocznia Gdanska Lenina, Gdasnk she measured 165.5 m x m x 8.1 m and weighed 12639 gross tons. She had a 5 cylinder oil engine constructed by Burmeister and Wain. She was owned by Zapbrya of the USSR. She anchored off Bressay in the early winter of 1994 and waited for the fishing vessels to arrive. On 30th October a force 10 gale swept across the islands causing the mooring lines of the ship to snap and she drifted helplessly towards the shore. She crashed ashore at on the Ness of Trebister a few miles south of Lerwi