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12019-07-23T17:35:32-04:00Wreck of the St. Nicholas (3)1plain2019-07-23T21:12:39-04:0044.827842, 34.99619311-20-183020 November 1830 Excerpt from the annual report of the Feodosiia city overseer
On November 20, the Russian merchant vessel St. Nicholas (Sv. Nikolaj), which belongs to a merchant named Amoretti of Feodosiia, was carrying 500 chetverts of grain from Mariupol' to Feodosiia. The ship met with a fierce adverse wind and sank, along with its cargo, off the coast of Sudak. Those on board swam to shore.