Off the coast of Crimea, divers discovered the steamer Boy Feddersen, which sank in 1943. According to one version, the ship was taking out the treasures looted by the Nazis.
Boy Feddersen was called "the steamer that didn't want to die." It was built in 1914 in Germany and was originally called Anhalt. In 1919, the ship was handed over to the British as part of reparations, then sold to a Spanish company. In 1931, the ship was bought by the Soviet Union. From that moment on, the ship was called "Kharkov".
In 1933, the ship was sent to London with a cargo of grain. He ran aground and got a hole. The pumps pumping water out of the hold quickly became clogged with grain. When the storm intensified to nine points, cracks appeared in the ship's hull. But "Kharkov" held out in this position for several days until the arrival of the rescuers.
The ship's hull was sawn in half. The stern part was towed to the Bosphorus and put on a sandbank. The bow was taken to Sevastopol.
And within a year, "Kharkov" was restored. During the Great Patriotic War, the sailors, due to the inability to leave the port of Nikolaev, captured by the Nazis, damaged the ship and left it. The Germans restored the steamer, and in 1943 renamed it Boy Feddersen, REN TV reports.
On August 10, 1943, the ship went to a convoy from Sevastopol to Constanta. The transport ships Boy Federsen and the Bulgarian Varna were accompanied by Romanian destroyers, a minesweeper, a minelayer and other ships. At night, the convoy began to attack Soviet aircraft. The submarine D-4 joined the attack. The steamer lost control. A day later, he sank 15 miles from Evpatoria.