UPDATE: two ferries that carry military supplies are disabled sunk, KS-701 “Tuna” /”Tunets” coast guard patrol boats (?), also a building belonging to Kerch bridge administration, a guard/ pilot boat(s) (?), a rail line, also, in the early morning, an oil storage at Taman on the Russian side of the bridge. (See below)
(The pundits do not think the actual bridge will be attacked until the F-16s are in place.)
Footage from sea drones:
Special Kherson Cat (thread with video):
A busy night/ early morning. Are these ex-ships?
- https://mil.in.ua/en/news/five-boats-and-two-ferries-damaged-in-night-attack-on-crimea/
“Both vessels are railroad ferries and were the only ones of this type to serve the Kerch ferry crossing. Five other ferries connect the occupied peninsula with the Russian mainland: two small automobile ferries, Kerch-2 and Yeysk, and three large automobile ferries, Lavrentiy, Panagia, and Maria.”
from Astra telegram channel
The vessels
Pilot boat “Mechta”
Also “Dream”, «Мечта»
sank, no casualties https://t.me/astrapress/56564
“On October 28, 2021 , it was reported that the Azov-Chernomorsky Basin Branch of FSUE Rosmorport acquired the pilot boat Mechta. The Project 1459 boat was manufactured in 1985 at the Leningrad Shipyard “Pella” and became the 7th pilot vessel of the branch.
According to open data, the Mechta boat is a steel single-deck vessel with a ledge at the bow, a single-tier wheelhouse and a stern-mounted diesel engines. As the press service of FSUE “Rosmorport” reported, pilot boats of this project can be operated in winter conditions with a thickness of broken ice no more than 30 cm.
Red link, for Project 1459 boats, see
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Lotsman#Fleet
- https://web.archive.org/web/20170829145742/http://fleetphoto.ru/projects/1096/
- https://www.marine-pilots.com/articles/334898-fleet-of-azovo-chernomorsky-basin-branch-was-replenished-with-pilot-boat-mechta
- https://news.online.ua/en/russian-pilot-boat-mechta-sank-after-afu-missile-attack-on-crimea-media-claims-879366/
Ferry “Conroe Trader”
damaged.
one crew member Roman Stas injured; he is undergoing surgery
Probably Project CNF06,
- “Railway ferry for 45 railway cars” https://meb.com.ua/ferry/CNF06-e.html
- “Konro Treyder“? “In 2011, modernized according to project 11784 at the Kherson NW (deck camber increased)” https://fleetphoto.ru/vessel/28571/
- Passenger ferry PROJECT 11784 https://www.nauticexpo.com/prod/jsc-kherson-shipyard/product-31201-419885.html
- Hull number 11784, Ship name Conro Trader http://smart-maritime.com/en/reference-list/arkhivnye-proekty/proekt-11784/
Ferry “Avangard”
ran aground due to damage
4 people injured, including 19-year-old trainees Daniil V. and Nikita Sh
Probably Project CNF06,
- “Railway ferry for 45 railway cars” https://meb.com.ua/ferry/CNF06-e.html
- https://fleetphoto.ru/projects/2635/?lang=en
- https://fleetphoto.ru/vessel/28279/
- https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9522403
Landing boats KS 701
4 transport landing boats KS 701 damaged, 2 already reported destroyed to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
- https://en.defence-ua.com/news/bayraktar_tb2_meets_the_russian_soldiers_trying_to_disembark_on_ukrainian_coast_the_ks_701_tunets_boat_was_destroyed_too_video-7832.html
“The KS-701 Tunets is a patrol boat mostly used by russian border guard and emergency services. The hull is 8.8 meters (29 feet) in length, and 2.5 m (8 ft) wide. Various sources say it can take 6 to 10 people aboard, plus a captain.”The maximum speed is 37.8 knots (700 km/h; 435 mph). The operational range is 200 nautic miles (370 km or 230 miles).”
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more video
20 explosions reported by locals
“we are scared” they say
Everyone is posting the song.
And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming, a 16th century kraken.
Okay , back to what I was doing before, which was browsing Olaus Magnus’s wonderful Scandinavian map from 1539, Carta Marina, with all the sea monsters.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_03037/?r=0.361,-0.001,0.268,0.128,0
It was a companion to his 1555 Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, with the famous woodcuts of 16th century Swedish life, and especially the Christmas and winter traditions. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/64647 https://archive.org/details/Historiaedegent00Olau/page/n11/mode/thumb https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2016/12/19/wondrous-winter-wonderland-16th-century-sweden/
Gender Desk 