Most likely Vácott lives and creates Mihályna Kolodkók clearly the coast of the Adriatic Sea, the Mediterranean Balkans is one of the most popular summer destinations, many mini sculptures have been placed there in recent years, from Pula in Croatia to Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The artist recently posted two photo galleries from Fiume/Rijek, in one of which he anchored a mini Carpathian steamship, and in the other, he placed a lion figure in its chosen place permanently, perhaps in honor of the cutely tamed big game that gave the ice cream its name, as it is most likely a striking sculpture of Leo.
The only lifebuoy from the Titanic in Europe can be seen in the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral in Rijeka. To find out how it got there, we need to know the fascinating history of the two ships, one of which, the world-famous Titanic, is known for the greatest disaster at sea, while the other, whose full name is the Royal Mail Steamer Carpathia, is almost completely unknown and forgotten by the general public. for. Absolutely unfairly, because this is a 170 meter long ship Arthur Henry Rostronam under the command of a captain and with 84 Croatian sailors on board, it was the first and only ship to answer the Titanic’s SOS call and literally head full steam towards the sinking ship.
For, being aware of the situation, the captain ordered the heating, hot water and steam supply to the passenger cabins to be shut off, and the Carpathia then set off three knots faster than the declared speed and arrived at the scene of the shipwreck an hour before the Titanic finally sank, and the crew , and thanks to the calmness of all the passengers, 706 shipwrecks were picked up in four hours.
Three days later, the Carpathia was welcomed by the world public in New York harbor, and the captain and crew were celebrated and rewarded as true heroes. Immediately after this bright moment, the searchlights went out, the Carpathia continued her usual life at sea, and with the outbreak of the First World War she was swept away by the storm of global conflagration.
At the beginning of the war, the Carpathia transported American and Canadian troops to Europe, and very successfully, because it was only in the last year of the war that bad luck caught up with her. Traveling in a convoy from Liverpool, southwest of the coast of Ireland, Carpathia was hit by two torpedoes from a German U-boat, followed by a third, sending her to the bottom of the sea, where she lay lost and forgotten until 2000, when she was found by underwater explorers.
Source: vaconline.hu
2024-07-27 13:05:53