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"Lady Cotlin"

            About a kilometer east of the mouth of the Daugava, 230 meters from the coast, the wreck of the Swedish concrete ship Lady Cotlin rises above the sea. In 1951, a ship was carrying salt to Riga and ran aground during a storm. The team managed to escape.

The story with Lady Cotlin is tragicomic: the team was drunk and on a November night they could not enter the “gate of the Daugava”. She missed a few hundred meters, ran aground. As a result, the hull of the ship split - the bow part with the wheelhouse fell off the hold.

According to rumors, smuggled alcohol was hidden in the cargo of the ship. Later, local residents found canisters of fiery liquid on the shore.

It should be noted here that in 1917 the first reinforced concrete ship was built by the Norwegian engineer Nikolai Fogner. At first, ships built of concrete were used to transport oil and bulk cargo, since, unlike metal ships, concrete ones were drier inside. Compared to wooden and metal ships, concrete ones were also stronger, but their service life usually did not exceed ten years.

Most actively reinforced concrete ships were built during World War II - thanks to the speed of construction and the cheapness of the material. The remains of "Lady Cotlin" are a favorite cormorant nesting site.

The surreal image of the "sea raven" organically complements the voice - goat bleating and sounds similar to demonic laughter, they can be heard even in the dune area on Mangalsala. Earlier, this species was rare in Latvia and even included in the Red Book. But at the end of the 20th century, the population of cormorants experienced a population explosion and today there are so many of them that they were excluded from the Red Book.

Taken in: Latvia / Rīga / Mangaļsala (show map)

Taken on: July 7, 2020

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