ZAKARPATYE at anchor in Tees Bay 16.08.97

Silent "Y" in this one Michael.
ZAKARPATE.

Built Gdynia in 1969.
22,884 Dwt 16,015 Gross. 15.5 kts.

1998 HOLYSEA.
2000 SVYATAYA MARIA.

Broken up Alang, arrived 12th January 2003. Beached 17th January 2003.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! Interesting!! I'm wondering Y the Y was lost!

When Mick and I saw this ship in 1997 Lloyd's Register listed her as ZAKARPATYE .... and she was sold the following year. As HOLYSEA she was also shown as ex Zakarpatye. Although I've not followed her right through her last few years it looks as though it may be Miramar who have accidentally missed out the Y in her name?

Ron

This is the problem when it comes to translating the Cyrillic Alphabet, Ron.

Your 100% right, it is spelt with a "Y" in Lloyds, Ambrose Greenway's, Soviet Merchant Ships and Soviet Bloc Merchant Ships so we must conceed that Maramar have got it wrong.
In which case the way the name is written on the ship is also wrong.

Take the final three letters "T b E" , some symbols do not have a Literal Translation and "b" is one of them. See fourth line up from the bottom. To represent "Y" it should be the Fifth symbol up "bI".
And I'm not even going into the other symbol for y...........

That's what makes translating the names of Soviet Merchant ships so much fun.

And its even better when you try and sort of Warships!!

IMO: 6922080

As HOLYSEA at Immingham - 24 February 1999: Ron

As HOLYSEA in Tees Dock 14.09.98