{"id":7517,"date":"2022-05-23T12:34:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T09:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hiiumaa.ee\/objekt\/the-memorial-to-the-victims-of-the-estonia-disaster\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T08:43:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T05:43:49","slug":"the-memorial-to-the-victims-of-the-estonia-disaster","status":"publish","type":"objekt","link":"https:\/\/hiiumaa.ee\/en\/object\/the-memorial-to-the-victims-of-the-estonia-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"The memorial to the victims of the Estonia disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":5573,"template":"","objekti_tuup":[117],"tegevusala":[118],"randade_filtrid":[],"teenuste_kategooriad":[],"class_list":["post-7517","objekt","type-objekt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","objekti_tuup-attraction","tegevusala-kultuur-ja-ajalugu-en"],"acf":{"kas_naidata_kaardirakenduses":"jah","arinimi":"","aadress":"Tahkuna nina, Tahkuna k\u00fcla","asukoha_koordinaadid":"22.58406639099121|59.091861724853516","access_point_coordinates":"","osavald":"- Vali -","telefon":"","e-mail":"","koduleht":"","facebook":"","youtube":"","instagram":"","kirjeldus":"Bronze bell \u2013 a ship\u2019s or soul bell that starts ringing by itself in a strong wind. With the movement of its cross-shaped pendulum in a storm, it seems a bring a message from the sea \u2013 a bell tower in a way \u2026 symbolically. The incline of the monument has a visual and emotional impact and should also call to mind the last moments of the ship. Tender details are also added to the bronze bell \u2013 four child faces on each of the main points of the compass.\r\n\r\nAccording to official anouncements the front visor of the ship is located about a mile to the west of the wreck. To investigate the reasons for the shipwreck, the visor was lifted to the surface in 1994 and taken to Hanko, Finland. In 1999 the investigative committee gave the visor over\u00a0 to the Swedish Maritime Museum and it was taken to S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje port in Sweden. From there the front visor was taken to a Swedish naval base\u00a0 on Musk\u00f6 island in 2002.\r\n\r\nThe shipwreck of Estonia was the biggest disaster on the Baltic Sea after the wars. Among the victims of the accident there were people from\u00a0 70 di\ufb00erent nationalities.\r\n\r\nAccording to the official report of the international committee investigating the shipwreck the visor ripped open by the storm dragged with it the ramp attached to it which led to water reaching the car deck.\r\n\r\nEstonia was a ferryboat built in 1980 in the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany. The fromer names of the boat were Viking Sally\u00a0 (1980\u20131990), Silja Star (1990\u20131991) and Wasa King. Eesti Merelaevandus and Nordstr\u00f6m & Thulin bought the ship for the Tallinn-Stockholm route. Estonia began operating the lane under the Es-\u00a0 tonian \ufb02ag on Fegruary 2, 1993. The ship was 155.43 m in length and 24.21 in width. Maximum speed of the ship was 21 knots. It had 1190 cabin spaces and fitted 460 cars\u00a0 on the car deck.\r\n\r\nOn the cape of Tahkuna, land nearest to the crash site, a memorial was put up on the initiative of school teacher Ants Rebane, funded\u00a0 by donations and built in large part as community work done on All Souls' Day \u2013 November 2, 1995. The memorial was dedicated to the children (of whom none survived) perished in the shipwreck, the children left orphans by the disaster and\u00a0 the children that were never born because of it.\r\n\r\nThe author Mati Karmin has defined the idea of the monument as follows (a selection of the author\u2019s explanation on 10.07.1995)\r\n