Shipwreck or sea mystery · 1957
Raketa, a reparations schooner left on the shore
Raketa, Russian for rocket, was a three-masted wooden schooner built in 1949 at the Hollming yard in Rauma, Finland. She was one of 91 wooden schooners Finland built to pay war reparations to the Soviet Union. Launched on 28 May 1949 and handed over on 12 December, she sailed the Baltic as a cargo ship for the Estonian Shipping Company. In 1957 she was written off and her hull was left on the shore of Hara Bay at Loksa village, today Kasispea. Several wrecks were abandoned on that coast. Photos in the Estonian Maritime Museum suggest that a fairly well preserved wreck on the beach there is Raketa.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Raketa, vene keeles rakett, oli 1949. aastal Soomes Raumas Hollmingi laevatehases ehitatud kolmemastiline puust kuunar. See oli üks 91 puukuunarist, mille Soome ehitas sõjakahjude hüvitamiseks NSV Liidule. Laev lasti vette 28. mail 1949, anti üle 12. detsembril ja teenis Eesti Merelaevanduses Läänemerel kaubalaevana. 1957. aastal kanti laev maha ja vrakk jäeti Hara lahe rannikule Loksa küla juurde, tänapäeva Kasispea külla. Samasse kanti jäeti mitu vrakki. Eesti Meremuuseumi fotode põhjal arvatakse, et üks sealsetest küllaltki hästi säilinud rannavrakkidest on Raketa.