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On October 29, 1955, near the Hospital Wall of Sevastopol Bay, after severe damage from an explosion equivalent to 1000-1200 kg of TNT, the cause of which has not yet been officially established (the official version is an explosion on a mine left over from the times of the Patriotic War), the Black Sea Fleet battleship Novorossiysk (Italian Giulio Cesare) sank. 617 people were killed — 557 people of the battleship's crew and 60 people from the personnel of the emergency parties of other ships of the squadron. Later, the ship was disassembled for metal and transferred to the Zaporizhstal plant.

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Soviet marine artist Evgeny Voishvillo (1907-1993). Tea clipper "Thermopylae". "Marine Fleet Magazine" No.8, 1981

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Schooner THOMAS W. LAWSON, 1902. The only 7 masted schooner ever built. Could sail 16-18 nots, faster than steamships of the time at ~ 9 knots. She carried primarily coal and oil in barrels. She sank off the Isles of Scilly, in a storm on Friday, 13th of December, 1907, killing all but two of her crew of eighteen and a harbor pilot. Her cargo of 58,000 barrels of light paraffin oil caused one of the first large marine oil spills. Thomas William Lawson (February 26, 1857 – February 7, 1925)[1] was an American businessman and writer. Lawson, who was intensely superstitious, wrote the novel "Friday the Thirteenth".

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July 24 is the 120th anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Kuznetsov - Admiral of the Fleet, Hero of the Soviet Union.

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V.Yarkin. "Rendezvous of the Russian squadron near Malta"

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Ivan Kharchenko. First Russian warship "Oryol" ("Eagle")/

It was built in 1668 in the village of Dedinov on the Oka River. Displacement of about 250 tons, length - 24.5 m., width - 6.5 m., draft - 1.5 m., armament of 22 guns, crew of 58 people (captain, 22 sailors, 35 soldiers)

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March 28 is the World Historian's Day. Historians! Let's change the past for the better!

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