THE LAST RUSSIAN LIGHTSHIP
ON THE BALTIC SEA
Site news
Our web site was born.
Summary of its contents was passed to the Navy head office in Moscow.
Following our email to Mr Russ Rowlett who mantains the world's most extensive amateur marine lights reference, The Lighthouse Directory, The Lighthouse Digest magazine has publised an article about Irbensky lightship. This is our first success in making Irbensky lightship destiny known to the wide public!
St.Petersburg news studio of the public TV broadcasting company ROSSIYA-1 shot two news episodes about the destiny of the Irbensky lightship - First episode, second episode
St.Petersburg regional bradcasting company 100TV shot a news episode featuring Irbensky lightship - look here
Lomonosov (St.Petersburg suburb) municipal deputies who noticed the TV broadcast about the lightship have contacted us and dispatched official messages to the Head of Navy and Memorial Preservation Comitte of St.Petersburg government requesting to save the lightship Irbensky as the memorial. A news message about that with lightship information from our site was posted on the popular national navy web-portal flot.com
We are preparing a presentation about Russian lightships and overseas lightship preservation stories aiming at saving the Irbensky lightship as the memorial. Further updates will be available early August 2010.
In the meantime we'll post some new info about lightships on our web site. Stay tuned!