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Shipwreck or sea mystery · 02.10.1939

Wreckage with no name washes up at Toila

Nimetud laevarusud Toila rannas

After a fierce autumn storm that blew itself out only on the morning of Monday 2 October 1939, the beach at Toila was strewn with the remains of a ship: hull planks, parts of a cabin, broken doors and lifebuoys. Lifebuoys normally carry a ship's name, but on these, and on every other piece, all markings were missing. From the size of the timbers it had been a fairly large vessel. Border guards and fishermen gathered the wreckage to be sold at auction. Nobody on the coast had seen a ship in trouble, and the paper called it a complete mystery.

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

Eesti keeles

Pärast tugevat sügistormi, mis vaibus alles esmaspäeva, 2. oktoobri 1939 hommikul, oli Toila rand täis laevarusu: küljelaudu, kajuti osi, katkisi uksi ja päästerõngaid. Päästerõngastel on tavaliselt laeva nimi, kuid neilt ega ühegi teiselt tükilt ei leitud mingeid tunnusmärke. Laudade järgi otsustades oli hukkunud üsna suur laev. Piirivalvurid ja kalurid korjasid rusud kokku, et need oksjonil maha müüa. Keegi rannas ei olnud märganud ühtki hädas laeva ja leht nimetas laevahukku täielikuks saladuseks.

Map of the area around Wreckage with no name washes up at Toila
59.42090° N, 27.51330° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: Päevaleht, 3 October 1939, p. 2 (DIGAR) ↗

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