The expedition of the People of the Sea Foundation went to study the sunken Prince Gorchakov

The expedition of the People of the Sea Foundation went to study the steamer Prince Gorchakov, which sank in 1906 in the waters of Vladivostok. On May 25, Izvestia correspondent Evgeny Podtergera spoke about the details of the study and talked with experts.

"While working in newspapers, I discovered an article that was published in May 1906 <...> that a ship was blown up by a Japanese mine - it was the Prince Gorchakov. The ship sank to the bottom of Peter the Great Bay," said Alexei Buyakov, a local historian, researcher and chairman of the Primorsky Branch of the Russian Geographical Society.

Podtergera noted that the sunken vessel is being investigated using the Triton drone, with the help of its special optics, it is possible to examine the smallest details of the steamer at great depth and in almost complete darkness.

Yevgeny Cheremnykh, a tour guide at the Military Historical Museum of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy (Pacific Fleet), said that the steamer was built in England, and in 1901 became part of the Northern Shipping Company. Since the railways of that time did not have enough power, the ship transported the mobilized military. There is no exact information about the ship's crew members.

Buyakov notes that both in 1906 and nowadays, researchers and laypeople are interested in the contents of the cargo of the sunken steamer. At the moment, it has not been confirmed that the discovered vessel is the same "Prince Gorchakov".

After the second expedition to the alleged site of the "death" of the steamer, the People of the Sea Foundation donated soil and water raised from the research site to the Military Historical Museum of the Pacific Fleet.

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