In 1986, a Soviet luxury liner met its end in the Marlborough Sounds
A navigation error in 1986 led a Soviet luxury cruise ship to its watery grave in New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds, resulting in a dramatic rescue operation in the dead of night.
The MS Mikhail Lermontov was a pride of the Soviet merchant fleet until it struck a reef near Cape Jackson on February 16, 1986. Despite having a local harbor master on board, the 500-foot liner was steered into a narrow, shallow passage where it suffered a fatal gash to its hull.
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