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Fire, flood or disaster · 13.02.1935

Salmistu fishermen carried out to sea on the ice

Salmistu kalurid kantakse jääl merele

At seven in the morning on 13 February 1935, 48 fishermen of Salmistu village, men and women, went out onto the sea ice with six winter seines on sledges they pulled themselves. Within an hour people on shore saw that a strong south wind had broken the ice in the bay loose and was driving it fast towards the open sea. The icebreaker Tasuja was readied, but villagers rowed out to the drifting floe and ferried the fishermen by the boatload to the islet of Pedassaar. The floe split into pieces and four seines, worth some 4,800 kroons, sank between the cracks, but everyone was saved.

Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today

Eesti keeles

13. veebruaril 1935 kell seitse hommikul läks Salmistu küla 48 kalurit, mehi ja naisi, merejääle noodapüügile kuue noodaga, mida veeti regedel. Juba tunni pärast nägid rannal olijad, et tugev lõunatuul on lahes jää lahti murdnud ja kihutab seda kiiresti ulgumere poole. Jäälõhkuja Tasuja seati sõiduvalmis, kuid rannarahvas sõudis paatidega triiviva jääpanga juurde ja viis kalurid paaditäite kaupa Pedassaarele. Jääpank murdus tükkideks ja pragude vahelt vajus merre neli noota umbes 4800 krooni väärtuses, kuid kõik inimesed pääsesid.

Map of the area around Salmistu fishermen carried out to sea on the ice
59.48760° N, 25.38030° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: Maa Hääl, 15 February 1935, p. 5 (DIGAR) ↗

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