Cunarders Behind the Iron Curtain 3: The Languishing LEONID SOBINOV
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2024
- Part three of Peter Knego's trip to the Ukraine in search of forgotten, classic Cunarders concludes with this visit to the laid up LEONID SOBINOV, the former SAXONIA/CARMANIA. Built in 1954, she was the first in a successful quartet of intermediate liners for Cunard's Liverpooll to Montreal service. In 1963, she became the stylish cruise ship CARMANIA until being sold to the Soviets in 1973 and renamed LEONID SOBINOV after the famed actor/opera singer. The ship had been laid up for three years when Knego paid her a nostalgic visit in 1997. She was ultimately sold for scrap in 1999 and broken up in 2000 at Alang, India. #Odessa #Iliychevsk #Carmania #OceanLinerDesign #Saxonia #ClassicLiners #Abandonedship #OldShips #Ships #HistoricVessels #Cunard #LeonidSobinov #Ukraineships #Odesa #MaritimeHistory #NauticalWonders #OceanLiners
Another wonderful installment Peter - thank you again!
Thanks so much, Alan! I appreciate your kind support. :)
Peter I remember walking all over her when she was cruising for CTC cruises. Thank you for this informative presentation
My pleasure. I wish I had seen her back then but she never came near the U.S.
Thank you for your efforts as always Peter documenting history and heritage. Kudos Knego 👍
Thank you. I was so fortunate to have access to so many dearly departeds. :)
Incredible peter. Another great job well done. I was like WOWWWWWW when the gentleman gave you the builders plate. What a kind thing of him to do. I could only imagine your reaction
Thanks so much, Greg. I was, of course, stunned. What I didn't show because I didn't have the footage, is that he gave it to me, then took it back because it wasn't polished. He gave it back to me the next day, of course, freshly polished. All of those people in the video were wonderful, kind and generous in so many ways. I will always be grateful to them.
Loved it, Peter....great work, as usual! So sad to see these fine liners now gone and what's worse, what's happening now at Odesa and those brave Ukrainian people.
Thanks so much, Andy. It is such an unnecessary tragedy there. The damage one despot can cause in the world.
Loved this Peter!
Thank you, John! :)
Simply glorious. You really captured her. Even though she was in good condition,I kept imagining how much hard work would have gone into making her whole again. I kept imagining a full lido deck with hanging colored lights and cool jazz Playing in the background on a warm Summer night. That sheltered main deck lido would’ve been a wonderful sheltered cafe,for a leisurely luncheon watching the wake roll by
Exactly! There was so much potential but of course ships are so finite due more to what lies beneath, such as plumbing, engines, wiring, etc. She was worn out but the bones were there if there were a budget for fixing her up. In those days, there was still a decade left before the SOLAS regulations would force her out of service.
Lovely Video memory, Peter. Cheers! Mark
Thank you for letting me share it with you, Mark. :)
You are the most legendary ship explorer ever my big brother. Thanks a lot for the great footage !!!
Thank you for watching, Eren, my brother in great ships!
@@midshipcinema Not a bit my big brother. You are the great 😇
Such a beautiful and special video. It was heartbreaking just to see you leaving her. What a special gift you got, I'm so happy for you. I'm glad that you thought of using a camera to light up the rooms to see what remained of her days as a Cunard ship. We just don't have ships like this anymore. Your documentations are beautiful. Thank you so much. I really enjoyed each deck.
Thank you so much, Deborah! I really appreciate your kind support of these videos. It is sad that so many of these ships are being forgotten. It was fun to use the flash-to-photo bits to show what the rooms looked like with a little more light than what was naturally there. Thanks again. These videos aren't getting many views, thanks to some sort of algorithmic mystery I still haven't figured out but the kind posts from those who watch them give me incentive to keep making more.
@@midshipcinema You're very welcome. I hope that you also continue to get more support. Because just showing these videos help people to appreciate the kind of ships that that we appreciated from the past some that we got to sail on even those that we didn't get to sail on. To enjoy the interiors and to see what they're really missing out on. That it's not all about huge water slides and everything else that they have on the top decks and all the extra decks on board the ships now. This is about the beauty of the interiors. And you're helping others to not forget these beautiful ships. I'm always going to appreciate what you upload.
Love it.
Thank you, my friend.
Hi Peter
I have just wanted the video on Leonid Sobinov, my first ship to sail on to England twice in 78 and 79. So many memories and am so sad i was never able to see her again. I would loved to have been in your shoes to visit. We were in cabin A43 both voyages, Black Sea Restaurant in 78 and Volga Restaurant 79. Seeing the Ocean Lounge and stairs leading up to the Odessa Bar made me feel like i was their. Up on the top main sports deck was a giant painted chess board not used but the chess pieces were under the stage in the cinema. Also there was a deck quoits net and markings on the rear M deck. When we were on her the childrens playroom was on port side Promenade.
I have found a few photos of our voyages, mainly the rear outdoor decks and looking over bow sailing the Suez Canal, standing on boat deck in Fremantle and a ships photo of my 2 brothers and a couple of other yound passengers sitting in the Ocean Lounge showing the tub chairs. I absolutely loved this video with so many memories.
I also when sailing the Indian Ocean climbed onto the deck a couple of times and touched the funnel. In my opinion the funnel markings looked better with the red band and yellow hammer and cycle. I will try and send you some photos.
Oh, Peter! What a fantastic slice of life on board LEONID you have shared! Thank you so much for watching and posting here. Thank you also for offering to share some photos. That would be so nice! If you can, my e-mail is pkpro7@aol.com. I hope more people like you will find this video as this beautiful ship has had such a rich and important history. Thanks again. :)
Great video and memories for me as well. We cruised on both a number of times during their Australian CTC Cruise days including a 44 day Japan cruise. The photo through a rough Sydney Heads is a favourite. Well done.
Thanks so much, Ian! SO happy you found the video. :)
Peter, once again thank you for sharing all of this great material with us and for documenting so well the Leonid Sobinv while it was possible. What a beautiful gesture that you were presented with the engine room plaque and with those other items. I know they have a good home with you.
As I was watching this video I was thinking about how it would be great to put you in the time machine and send you back to the laid-up Leviathan in the 1930's. Volume 6 of Frank O. Braynard's series of books about the Leviathan has many fascinating photos of the interior and exterior, but a Peter Knego tour of the ship done with color video and with sound would be fantastic.
Also, Peter, I saw you at the Monroe County Public Library here in Bloomington, Indiana. In William H. Miller's book about the S.S. United States there was the photo of you atop one of the funnels of the Big U. I thought right away, "If Peter could buy that funnel and take it home he would".
Thank you again for all the history you preserve and share!
Thank you, Andrew. I'm very honored by your words. Oh, if only I could get in that time machine. The problem would be when and where to set it as I can't imagine passing by a chance to sail in NIEUW AMSTERDAM, QUEEN ELIZABETH, ORSOVA and so many more liners well before we go back to the spectacular LEVIATHAN. But of course, I'd love that and an absolute must would be to see the four German liners laid up in Baltimore in the late 30s, too! Thank you for watching and for your kind post.
PS. I was so fortunate to have my kind hosts arrange my visit to those beautiful ships and to the LEONID's watchman not only appreciate his ship so much but to present me with those gifts, all of which enjoy a distinguished place in my archives.
26:35 Interestingly the German liner Bremen was among the first (maybe even the first) to have a small bowling alley on the upper promenade deck.
Great video! Sad that these wonderful ships will never be seen again like so many others.
Thank you so much. :)
known for the red bikini girl lol! another great video Peter! thanks for sharing!
Oh, yes! I wasn't sure if that was SOBINOV or SHALYAPIN. I need to look up that story. Thank you. :)
That's the only thing about putting astroturf on the ship's deck it will get wet and rot the deck out underneath
Correct, especially if it is not maintained.
Only Russia restore the ship. Ukraine was sovietic territory. Go back Ukraine 🇷🇺
Wow Peter this is amazing my friend also thats amazing to see the ships original builders plaque from 1954 along with the amazing tour of the SS Saxonia very cool!😀
Thank you supertitanicboy. The plate is here in good company with its fellow John Brown built TRANSVAAL CASTLE and KUNGSHOLM plates. The watchman on LEONID and my friends from Odessa represent the best of humanity.
wow thats awesome😀@@midshipcinema
Very cool images!
(Sidney Smith also did the Tourist Class Dining Room mural for the Windsor Castle; I need to dig into his career more.)
Hi Wayne! Yes, I tried to get that Smith mural at Alang but there were some issues, the main one being that it was painted on asbestos panels. The other was that the awful breaker stowed furniture and other things directly against the panel, causing much damage. With the asbestos issue, I decided against trying to save it.
Yeah, once the veneer on those Marinite panels is compromised, it can get dicey. Would not want to try to restore that!