Russian passenger cruise ship. On the 28th of May, 1973 the Mikhail Lermontov departed Leningrad on her maiden voyage and after calls at Bremerhaven London and Le Havre, she proceeded to New York, arriving on the 11th of June, becoming the first Russian liner to call there in twenty five years. After 1980, the Mikhail Lermontov was switched to cruising out of Europe. She left Sydney on the 6th of February 1986 for what was billed as a "two week cruise of a lifetime". After visiting Auckland, Tauranga and Wellington, she sank in Marlborough Sounds, 16 February 1986.
Mikhail Lermontov (Ship)
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Crew member Bronwyn Clark aboard the cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov - Photographs taken ...
Date: 15 February 1986
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Nicholson, John, active 1997
Reference: EP/1986/0739
Description: Australian crew member Bronwyn Clark sitting on a deck chair aboard the cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov, Wellington Harbour. A Russian flag is flying behind Ms Clark and Mount Victoria can be seen in the background. Photographed 15 February 1986 by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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Small boats mark the area where the Mikhail Lermontov went down - Photographs taken by ...
Date: [ca 17 February 1986]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016
Reference: EP/1986/0771-F
Description: Small boats mark the area where the cruise liner 'Mikhail Lermontov' went down. Photographs taken ca 17 February 1986 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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Soviet cruise liner the Mikhail Lermontov sinking in the Marlborough Sounds
Date: [ca 16 February 1986]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1989/1713
Description: Soviet cruise liner the Mikhail Lermontov sinking in the Marlborough Sounds, taken ca 16 February 1986 by the skipper of a fishing boat. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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Area in Marlborough Sounds, near Cape Jackson, where the Russian cruise ship Mikhail Le...
Date: [ca 16 Feb 1986]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016
Reference: EP/1986/0772-F
Description: Area in Marlborough Sounds, between Cape Jackson and its outlying lighthouse, where the Russian cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov is believed to have been holed on 16 February 1986. Photographs taken circa 16 February 1986 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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Photographic prints relating to sea rescues and marine accidents
Date: 1934-1986
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: PAColl-7327-1-011
Description: Photographs relating to sea rescues and marine accidents, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1934 and 1986. Includes ships from the Maru line; Masa, Choryo, Koyu, and Minato. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.
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Interview with Alister Macalister
Date: 15 Jun 1988
From: Macalister Mazengarb 75th Anniversary Oral History Project.
By: Macalister, Alister Fitzgerald, 1922-2017
Reference: OHInt-0203/01
Description: Alister Macalister was born in Wellington in 1922. Describes how his mother's paternal grandfather, James Edward Fitzgerald, became Superintendent of Canterbury and her maternal grandfather, Isaac Earl Featherston, was Agent-General for New Zealand in London, Superintendent of Wellington and an MP. Talks about the family's Wadestown home. Describes his father Sir Robert Lachlan Macalister, a mayor of Wellington, who went into partnership in Macalister Mazengarb with E.P. (Ernest) Hay after World War I. Gives a brief history of the firm formed in 1912 by J.S. Barton. Discusses his mother, Katherine Macalister (nee Fitzgerald), and his parents enjoyment of travel and reading. Recalls family friend Dr Elizabeth Gunn. Talks about his education at Wellesley College. Comments that his father drifted into politics through the Wellington Beautifying Society. Describes his own interest in the Wellington Harbour Board and Lambton Harbour Redevelopment Project. Talks about becoming a law clerk. Describes attending law lectures before and after work. Lists some of the students and describes aspects of their social life. Comments on the system of studying law while being employed. Recalls the law clerks from Macalister Mazengarb who went to World War II including B.M. (Brian) Madden, D.R. (Ross) Scrymgeour, W.T. (Bill) Fitzgerald, A.J. (Alf) Mazengarb, E.L. (Red) Pocock, F.L. (Frank) Parkin and L.G. (Les) Rose. Notes that several of these men were killed or wounded. Describes his own war-time activity in the Navy, in a submarine in the North Sea. Recalls completing his law degree in 1946 and becoming a junior solicitor. Comments on office etiquette and discipline. Recalls the women on the staff. Describes the different style and skills of O.C. Mazengarb and E.P. Hay. Discusses the firm's specialisation in accident or personal injury compensation and workers compensation. Talks about his involvement in cases associated with accidents on the waterfront and marine inquiries. Contends that he has appeared in most marine inquiries since World War II. Gives his views on the Wahine inquiry in which he acted for Captain Gordon Robertson. Discusses his involvement in the inquiry into the DC3 crash in the Kaimai Range in 1963. Recalls acting for Captain Jim Collins in the Erebus Inquiry in 1979. Discusses the skills of Judge Mahon and comments on his statements about Air New Zealand. Recalls the 1981 inquiry into the grounding of the Pacific Charger off Baring Head. Talks at length about the inquiry into the grounding and sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov in 1986. Mentions some of the people he has appeared against including Sir Thaddeus McCarthy, Sir Denis Blundell and Frank O'Flynn. Venue - Wellington : 1988 Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - Mr Macalister's home in Wadestown Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 619.
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A rescue craft tows a line of lifeboats and a life raft from the Mikhail Lermontov - Ph...
Date: [ca 17 February 1986]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016
Reference: EP/1986/0770-F
Description: A rescue boat tows a line of lifeboats and a life raft from the liner 'Mikhail Lermontov'. Photographs taken ca 17 February 1986 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. A second vessel retrieves a floating container. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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Business correspondence and other papers (6)
Date: 1990-1999
From: Catley, Christine McKelvie Cole (Dame), 1922-2011 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11651-276
Description: Includes papers relating to Catley's business partnership with Carol Dawber and Peter Rivers. Also correspondence with Doug Kidd and others relating to the sinking of the cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)
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Papers relating to Cape Catley books (6) - Death of a cruise ship
Date: 1986, 1999-2001
From: Catley, Christine McKelvie Cole (Dame), 1922-2011 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-11651-292
Description: Includes correspondence, clippings and other papers relating to the book `Death of a cruise ship: The mystery of the Mikhail Lermontov' (1999) by Tom O'Connor Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, photo and printed matter (some photocopies)
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Captain Vladislav Vorobyev and his ship's officers arriving for an inquiry into the sin...
Date: 18 February 1986
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016
Reference: EP/1986/0806
Description: Captain Vladislav Vorobyev and some of his ship's officers arriving for the preliminary marine inquiry into the sinking of the Russian cruise ship the Mikhail Lermontov, Wellington. Photographed 18 February 1986 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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A rescue boat approaches an overturned lifeboat from the Mikhail Lermontov - Photograph...
Date: [ca 17 February 1986]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016
Reference: EP/1986/0773-F
Description: A rescue boat, 'Friendship Viking', approaches an overturned lifeboat from the 'Mikhail Lermontov'. Photographs taken ca 17 February 1986 by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. A rubber liferaft lies astern. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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Survivors of the sinking of Russian cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov - Photographs taken b...
Date: 17 February 1986
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: King, Gregory Andrew, 1960-
Reference: EP/1986/0781
Description: Photographs of survivors of the sinking of Russian cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov, taken 17 February 1986 by Evening Post staff photographer Greg King. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923-:Lermontov [1986]
Date: 1986 - 1987
From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923-:Eight cartoons mostly published by the Dominion [late 1980s?].
Reference: A-290-066
Description: Cartoon shows two vultures perched hungrily on a sign in the water marking the place where the ship 'Mikhael Lermontov" has sunk. In pencil at lower right: "Rejected". This cartoon was not used by the Dominion. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 250 x 330 mm, on sheet 330 x 420 mm.
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Packets of food from the Mikhail Lermontov - Photographs taken by Phil Reid
Date: [ca 7 May 1986]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Reid, Philip John, 1954-
Reference: EP/1986/2132-F
Description: Photographs of packets of food from the cruise liner the 'Mikhail Lermontov', taken ca 7 May 1986 by Evening Post staff photographer Phil Reid. Shows a tin of water, a plastic packet which contains compressed food and sugar cubes. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate film negative, 35mm
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Russian cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov berthed at Wellington Harbour - Photographs taken...
Date: [ca 15 Feb 1986]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Nicholson, John, active 1997
Reference: EP/1986/0740-F
Description: Russian cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov berthed in Wellington Harbour. Photographs taken circa 15 February 1986 by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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On their way to the inquiry into the sinking of the Russian cruise ship Mikhail Lermont...
Date: 20 Feb 1986
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016
Reference: EP/1986/0824-F
Description: Group on their way to the inquiry, in Wellington, into the sinking of the Russian cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov, 20 February, 1986. From left: Interpreter Boris Ashikhmin; Lawyer for Captain Vladislav Vorobyev, Tom Broadmore; chief navigator Sergey Stepanishchev. Photographs taken by Evening Post staff photographer Ian Mackley. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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Survivors of the sinking of Russian cruise ship the Mikhail Lermontov at the Overseas P...
Date: [ca 17 February 1986]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Nicholson, John, active 1997
Reference: EP/1986/0782
Description: Survivors of the sinking of Russian cruise ship the Mikhail Lermontov arrive at the Overseas Passenger Terminal, Wellington. Photographs taken ca 17 February 1986 by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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Research files - General M-O
Date: 1963-1986
From: Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986 : Papers
Reference: 2010-184-10
Description: Box contains ten folders of research and subject files. Includes material relating to the sinking of the Mikhail Lermontov (1986); natural history; New Zealand art; New Zealand libraries; poltergeists (the ghost of the `Brooklyn Dodger'). Quantity: 1 box(es). Physical Description: Typescripts and printed material
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Survivors from the cruise liner Mikhail Lermontov
Date: [ca 17 February 1986]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1986/0779-F
Description: Survivors from the cruise liner 'Mikhail Lermontov'. Photographs taken ca 17 February 1986 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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6 Miscellaneous records
Date: 1941-1986
From: Harbours Association of New Zealand : Records
Reference: Series-0915
Description: Includes Lyttelton Harbour Board papers, 1941-1967; register of correspondence, 1966-1974; submissions to Waterfront Industry Tribunal, and to Commission of Inquiry into pilotage; South Pacific Ports Conference papers, 1978; Mikhail Lermontov report appendices and hydrographic charts, 1986 Quantity: 8 folder(s).