The trawler “Captain Lobanov” sank after it was hit by a Navy missile during an exercise
A relative of a crew member told Dozhd about this. According to him, on March 19, as a result of a missile hitting the ship, 3 crew members were killed and four were injured. The missile was fired during a Baltic Fleet exercise, he claims.
The government of the Kaliningrad region claims that there was a fire on board the trawler. According to authorities, one person died as a result of the incident.
“When the survivors were taken away, everyone knew perfectly well that three people had died. And everyone knew perfectly well that a rocket had hit. But they decided to write that there was a “fire.” I wonder what kind of fire this is, if the captain’s cabin is completely gone, it was simply demolished,” says Dozhd’s source.
The victims, according to the interlocutor, are in a hospital in the city of Pionersk, and one of them is in serious condition. At the hospital, the wounded were allegedly interrogated by FSB officers, who asked the crew members “not to talk about the incident.”
Earlier, the TV channel, based on open data from the automated tracking system AIS, found out that “Captain Lobanov” could have entered the training area of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Navy.
The body of the ship is under load, as it’s not floating in free space but on water. Temperature softens the metal of the body of the ship. The loading becomes critical for the stability of the structure. Thus the structure fails and the ship sinks.
It’s unlikely the steel would get to any sort of failure point before any number of other non-steel things would fail and leak profusely. Not to mention the outer hull would absolutely never get hot enough to lose strength because it’s pressed to water.
It’d probably take a particularly hot fire in a particularly large boat to serously damage the structure itself. These fishing boats also generally have large volumes of water in them to keep the catch alive until processing, so…
Yea, a fire taking down a trawler is about as believable as a healthy person stumbling out of a third floor window from a building they don’t normally work…