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http://www.portalmorski.pl/morze-inne/n ... quote]From the bottom of the Baltic Sea shipwreck excavated American bomber Douglas A-20 .
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 12:14 CMM, Grzegorz Landowski
Wreck bomber Douglas A-20 extracted from the Baltic
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Research vessel St. Barbara picked up from the bottom of the Baltic Sea wreck Douglas A-20. Thus successfully completed the production project bomber who carries out the National Maritime Museum in Gdansk with the support of partners: the Navy and the LOTOS Petrobaltic.
The property is the sixteenth-preserved monument of this type in the world and will provide extremely valuable for Polish museum exhibit.
Recall that the coming of World War II plane wreck Douglas A-20 was found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in May 2013. Maritime Institute in Gdansk, researching the southern Baltic seabed in the area of about 10 sq km., Found the wreck of an unknown fighter aircraft . After the initial diagnosis, it was found that this is probably wreck bomber American production type Douglas A-20 version of A-20G Havoc.
- During standard measurements on the edge of the hit on the object, which turned out to be a plane - said Wojciech Konieczny, head of measurement Maritime Institute, who found the wreck.
Fearing the possibility of plundering the exact position of the object but then not given.
- Deteriorated is part of the bow - from the position of the pilot missing four machine guns and the front of the cockpit and there is no part of the fuselage - said after the discovery of Dr. Ing. Benedict Hac, Head of the Department of Operational Oceanography Maritime Institute in Gdansk.
Already in October last year. Was an attempt of its production but due to bad weather conditions improve not been achieved. While the wreck was investigated and prepared for the next attempt.
- Increasing the whole plane out of the bottom of the sea is a very ambitious challenge, requiring specialized knowledge, experience and precise coordination of the project team - says Iwona Pomian, Head of Research of the National Underwater Maritime Museum, coordinator of the mining project. - Task hampered by the fact that Rozewie, where arrears wreck Douglas A-20, is particularly vulnerable to wind or wave. With the warmer weather we have seen only in Poland, raising the bottom of the Baltic Sea whole plane of World War II.
This task was done with the help of the Polish Navy who prepared almost completely buried wreck for extraction and LOTOS Petrobaltic. The latter made available to operations research vessel St. Barbara and tug Cambrian , included in a group of LOTOS Petrobaltic.
This is not the first time that the Navy help to preserve the monuments of defaulting in the sea. The cooperation began even in the last century through the research of wrecks "the Copper", "Książkowca", "Grain" or "Solena". Recently the museum and Navy divers worked in mining iron guns of the eighteenth century found by the Maritime Institute in Gdansk, 30 miles from the port of Ustka. LOTOS Petrobaltic, in turn, became famous for the discovery of the wreck at the bottom of the Baltic German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin .
Light Bomber Douglas A-20 production of Douglas Aircraft Company was in the early stages of the war the primary bomber army USA. Known by many names, as Douglas Boston and Douglas Havoc night fighter, was also used by the aviation British, French and Soviet fighting the Nazis ( visual inspection of the wreckage and taken the equipment indicates that the plane was flying in the colors of the USSR and the Soviet Union was probably passed by the United States in Under the agreement Lend-Lease) .
- Wreck of 70 years was under water, but kept in good condition. In addition to the exceptional value of the object resulting from few surviving worthy of saving this type of airframe, we can talk about the uniqueness of this practice findings and Its importance for the Polish museum collections - emphasizes Iwona Pomian.
The increase in total wreckage Douglas A-20 from the bottom of the Baltic Sea is the first of its kind, professional attempt to Polish museum and one of the most spectacular events in Polish archeology since the war. It is also an important project for the Polish museum, which draws attention to Dr. Eng. Jerzy Litwin, director of the National Maritime Museum. Plane after extraction will be forwarded to a specialist museum facility which is the Polish Aviation Museum in Cracow, where it will be subjected to a konserwatorskiemu and further testing.
- Implementation of this - significant in terms of the forces involved - the project will develop a methodology for the extraction of Polish museum professionals of this type, the method of their renovation and standards of cooperation with the involvement of many actors involved in the project. We are proud of the fact that this area of research and education, as well as management, National Maritime Museum is one of the leading cultural institutions on the Polish coast - says project director of the museum.
rel CMM, Grzegorz Landowski
Photos: CMM
Footage: Maritime Institute in Gdansk
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Soviet WWII Bomber Raised Off Poland
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http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/1862 ... quote]WWII bomber lifted from seabed on show
PR dla Zagranicy Nick Hodge 04.11.2014 09:05
Minister of Culture Malgorzata Omilanowska has presented a WWII bomber that was hoisted from the Baltic seabed in October to the director of the Krakow Aviation Museum.
Minister of Culture Malgorzata Omilanowska (R) and Director of the Krakow Aviation Museum Krzysztof Radwan, Gdynia, 3 November. Photo: PAP/Adam Warzawa
The wreckage was handed over at the Naval Port in Gdynia, northern Poland, after being cleaned by specialists from the National Maritime Museum in Gdansk. “It's sensational that it was possible to retrieve such a well-preserved wreck from the bottom of the Baltic,” the minister reflected.
During the cleaning process, a red star was found on the side of the aircraft, confirming that the Douglas A-20 Havoc plane had been manned by Soviet airmen. “The aircraft was shot down by a German ship,” Omilanowska said. Damage was found on the left engine, and staff at the National Maritime Museum have researched the incident. “We know that the bomber crew survived. The plane went down, but the crew managed to escape.”
Only 16 Douglas A-20 aircraft have survived to this day, despite the American model being widely used by both US pilots and their WWII allies, including the Soviet Union. The wreck was lifted from the seabed 4km away from the shore, on 6 October.
The Aviation Museum in Krakow envisages that it will take about three years to prepare the wreckage for display, meaning that it is unlikely the plane will be on view until Independence Day (11 November) in 2017 at the earliest. Director of the Aviation Museum Krzysztof Radwan indicated that there are plans to exhibit the wreckage in a vast pool of water, simulating the Baltic seabed. (nh)
Source: PAP/Gazeta Wyborcza
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PR dla Zagranicy Nick Hodge 04.11.2014 09:05
Minister of Culture Malgorzata Omilanowska has presented a WWII bomber that was hoisted from the Baltic seabed in October to the director of the Krakow Aviation Museum.
Minister of Culture Malgorzata Omilanowska (R) and Director of the Krakow Aviation Museum Krzysztof Radwan, Gdynia, 3 November. Photo: PAP/Adam Warzawa
The wreckage was handed over at the Naval Port in Gdynia, northern Poland, after being cleaned by specialists from the National Maritime Museum in Gdansk. “It's sensational that it was possible to retrieve such a well-preserved wreck from the bottom of the Baltic,” the minister reflected.
During the cleaning process, a red star was found on the side of the aircraft, confirming that the Douglas A-20 Havoc plane had been manned by Soviet airmen. “The aircraft was shot down by a German ship,” Omilanowska said. Damage was found on the left engine, and staff at the National Maritime Museum have researched the incident. “We know that the bomber crew survived. The plane went down, but the crew managed to escape.”
Only 16 Douglas A-20 aircraft have survived to this day, despite the American model being widely used by both US pilots and their WWII allies, including the Soviet Union. The wreck was lifted from the seabed 4km away from the shore, on 6 October.
The Aviation Museum in Krakow envisages that it will take about three years to prepare the wreckage for display, meaning that it is unlikely the plane will be on view until Independence Day (11 November) in 2017 at the earliest. Director of the Aviation Museum Krzysztof Radwan indicated that there are plans to exhibit the wreckage in a vast pool of water, simulating the Baltic seabed. (nh)
Source: PAP/Gazeta Wyborcza
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