The missing ship is an experiment. Captain Nemo was supposed to be Polish. In search of truth

The Philadelphia Experiment is one of the most famous unsolved mysteries of the 20th century.

During World War II, the countries involved in the conflict were looking for a new way to win quickly and effectively, no matter how fantastic this method may seem. At that time, the US Navy was obsessed with the idea of ​​​​creating the perfect camouflage for the ship, capable of making it invisible to enemy radar and protecting it from magnetic mines. According to some sources, in 1943 in Philadelphia, the US military allegedly tried to create such a ship, but the experiment got out of control and led to the most unexpected consequences.

Versions and assumptions regarding the course of the Philadelphia experiment and its results are still expressed, and researchers continue to argue about whether it was a fait accompli, a newspaper duck, or well-developed disinformation.

Experiment

It is believed that with the help of this experiment, US military scientists tried to check whether an ultra-high-power electromagnetic field, generated in a special way around an object, can lead to its complete visual disappearance due to the fact that light and radio waves begin to bend around it. If successful, scientists and engineers hoped to build several destroyers that could disappear not only from enemy radar screens, but literally from sight. In addition, physicists were going to test in practice the unified field theory formulated by Albert Einstein. And according to some unconfirmed information, he himself was involved in this experience.

According to the most common version, the experiment was carried out on October 28, 1943 in the port of Philadelphia. The destroyer Eldridge with its entire crew of 181 crew members on board was chosen as the target. To conduct the experiment, 4 powerful generators of electromagnetic oscillations were mounted on board the ship, which, according to scientists, were supposed to create that same invisible electromagnetic cocoon around the hull of the ship.

From early morning, the destroyer took up a position in the dock assigned to it. The experiment was monitored by senior Navy officials and scientists from a command ship moored nearby, while observers from other departments were stationed on the merchant ship Andrew Furset. Exactly at 09:00, the order was given to start the generators, and within a few minutes a thick greenish haze enveloped the destroyer, and 12 minutes later it disappeared in front of the amazed spectators.

Only 4 hours later, the ship appeared several tens of kilometers from the place of the experiment - in Norfolk, not far from its reserve parking lot, literally appearing out of thin air. It remained virtually undamaged (except that the on-board clock and compasses were out of order), which could not be said about its large crew. Most of the sailors died during the experiment, and the death of some of them occurred under extremely strange and unusual circumstances. Most of the survivors went crazy, and when they were found, they were busy rushing through the corridors of the ship with loud laughter and inarticulate screams, hitting the walls or tearing their hands and faces with their nails. Only 21 out of 181 people returned safe and sound, maintaining their sanity, but it took them a long time to come to their senses after what they saw. All survivors were immediately quarantined and thoroughly interrogated in order to reconstruct in detail everything that happened on the destroyer Eldridge during his absence. Judging by the data obtained, during the experiment on board the ship something happened that scientists had never encountered before and could not give an explanation for.

As a result, according to the testimony of those interviewed, the following was established. Immediately after turning on the generators, all people on board, without exception, began to experience an inexplicable and growing anxiety. As the greenish fog thickened, many people's anxiety turned into panic. And by the time the ship disappeared from the field of view of observers, the horror had become so strong that none of the crew could do anything or make any observations. So many team members have only fragmentary memories and vivid images of what happened. Moreover, at first the testimonies of the survivors were not even taken seriously, they were so unrealistic - they were written off as severe stress. But further investigation and a detailed examination of the Eldridge confirmed much of what the sailors said.

Some of the dead crew members froze motionless in place in various positions and stopped breathing, turning into an eerie resemblance of statues. Others burned because temperature anomalies arose in several places on the ship - the heat there was such that even the metal melted. The lucky ones who managed to escape from such places said that people began to smoke, and their skin turned red and seemed to be heating up. Some burned for a very long time - according to witnesses, about several hours, although it was not possible to establish this precisely, since the sailors admitted that at that moment they could not adequately estimate the time. Some of the surviving madmen also had burns, sometimes so severe that the victims later died. Some of the sailors were exposed to radiation, which was revealed later during medical examinations and autopsies; others received severe electric shocks. The 27 sailors seemed to have grown into the bulkheads and structures of the ship, as if human bodies and metal had become one. Two survivors later said that they saw with their own eyes how people passed through the walls. This is exactly how the bodies that merged with the ship appeared: some of those who “entered” the bulkheads froze in the middle and were unable to get out.

Of course, both the experiment itself and its consequences were strictly classified. All investigation materials, photographs and newsreels, autopsy results and testimonies of surviving eyewitnesses were sent to protected archives, and some of them were immediately destroyed. Representatives of the US Navy and other witnesses in the case were ordered to categorically deny the fact of the experiment, and to call any information about it fiction and lies. But rumors continued to spread anyway.

Publicity

The Philadelphia Experiment first became known to the public thanks to astrophysicist, mathematician and ufologist Maurice Ketchum Jessup from Iowa. He did not seek public recognition - he simply wrote articles and books on topics that interested him. In the 1950s, he became particularly interested in the then popular “unidentified flying objects”, so in 1955 Mr. Jessup published his next book, “The Case for UFOs.” This work, attempting to answer the question “What is a UFO?” from a scientific point of view, did not become a bestseller, but it was thanks to it that Maurice received a strange letter from a certain Mr. Carlos Miguel Allende, who was very interested in the section of the book on the properties of space and time. In this letter, the unknown person claimed that the US military, using secret technology in practice, could, paradoxically, move objects “outside the usual Space and Time.” Mr. Jessup asked for clarification and a year later received a much more detailed letter, which described in detail all the details of the classified experiment.

The author of the message claimed that he served in 1943 on the ship "Andrew Furset", which was part of the control group of the Philadelphia experiment, and saw with his own eyes everything that happened to the destroyer "Eldridge". Here are excerpts from his letter, which was later made public:

"Carlos Miguel Allende, New Kensington, Pennsylvania

The “result” was the complete invisibility of a destroyer-type ship at sea and its entire crew. The magnetic field had the shape of a rotating ellipsoid and extended 100 m (more or less, depending on the position of the Moon and the degree of longitude) on both sides of the ship. Everyone who was in this field had only blurry outlines...

Those who were outside the magnetic field saw nothing at all, except for the sharply defined trace of the ship's hull in the water - provided, of course, that they were close enough to the magnetic field, but still outside it... Half of the officers and crew members of that ship completely insane now. Some, even to this day, are kept in appropriate institutions where they will receive qualified scientific help when they are either “soaring,” as they themselves call it, or “soaring and getting stuck.” This “floating” is a consequence of being in a magnetic field for too long.

If a person is “stuck,” then he is unable to move of his own free will unless one or two companions who are nearby come and touch him, because otherwise he will “freeze.” Usually the “deep-frozen” person loses his mind, goes berserk and talks nonsense if the “freezing” lasted more than one day according to our time count.

I'm talking about time, but the “frozen” perceive the passage of time differently than we do. They resemble people in a twilight state, who live, breathe, hear and feel, but do not perceive so much that they seem to exist only in the next world. They perceive time differently than you or I.

Very few of the team members who took part in the experiment remained... Most lost their minds, one simply disappeared “through” the wall of his own apartment in front of his wife and child. Two other crew members were "ignited", that is, they "froze" and caught fire while hauling small boat compasses; one was carrying a compass and caught fire, and the other rushed to him to “lay on his hand,” but also caught fire. They burned for 18 days. Faith in the effectiveness of the laying on of hands was destroyed, and a general madness began. The experiment as such was absolutely successful. It had a fatal effect on the crew..."

Of course, upon receiving this letter, Maurice Jessup accepted the possibility that it was not an entirely real, but rather an exaggerated account of a mysterious event. Yet there were many secret experiments conducted during World War II - why shouldn't the Philadelphia Experiment be one of them? After all, the letter contained too many real details: names, place names, dates and events.

Jessup could not ignore such a sensation and immediately began to investigate: he went to the archives, looked for eyewitnesses, talked with military men and sailors, and, they say, found a lot of evidence that the experiment took place. He was finally confirmed in his opinion when he was unexpectedly summoned to the US Office of Naval Research. The fact is that shortly before this, a parcel arrived there with an Easter card and Jessup’s new book, “The Advanced Argument for UFOs,” all the fields of which were covered with notes in blue, purple and green ink. The notes contained overt allusions to Einstein's unified field theory, the Philadelphia experiment, the names of the high command of the US Navy and links to classified documents and materials. Of course, Mr. Maurice Jessup was asked to explain. He immediately appeared and, having studied the book, came to the conclusion that the notes in the margins in blue ink were written in the same handwriting as the letters of the mysterious Mr. Allende. According to Jessup himself, employees of the Office of Naval Research admitted to him during that conversation that such an experiment was actually carried out in the fall of 1943, but whether it really happened, we will never know.

After this conversation, the search for Allende began in earnest, but he remained elusive, although he continued to regularly write to Jessup. In his messages, he reported more and more new facts about the Philadelphia experiment. He spoke in detail about the field of static electricity that engulfed the Eldridge, into which he even stuck his hand and survived after that only thanks to high sailor rubber boots and a rubberized sou'wester. He wrote a lot about the unique force field that moved counterclockwise around the Eldridge, and its supposed properties. Also, according to him, Albert Einstein himself was present at a certain stage of the experiment.

Such letters arrived for two years, until, finally, the correspondence was interrupted in the most tragic way. Perhaps the Philadelphia Experiment would never have become public knowledge if not for the mysterious and sudden death of Maurice Jessup. On April 20, 1959, he was found in his car, suffocated by exhaust fumes. Perhaps he committed suicide due to numerous debts, or perhaps the reason for the sudden decision to take his own life was a protracted creative crisis - he could not finish his new book, which was entirely dedicated to what happened with the destroyer Eldridge. There is also an opinion that Jessup learned too much, and they helped him die quickly. However, the police unequivocally decided that Morris, being very drunk and under the influence of a large number of antidepressants, himself brought the hose from the exhaust pipe into the interior of the car, plugged all the cracks, started the engine and soon suffocated. This is confirmed by the fact that shortly before his death he wrote two farewell letters to relatives and friends.

But Jessup's cause did not remain without followers. His comrades and co-authors Ivan Sanderson and Dr. Manson Valentine, immediately after Maurice's death, took up their own investigation with renewed enthusiasm - and soon received results. Thus, some documents were found confirming that from 1943 to 1944 Einstein served in the Navy Department in Washington. Both living witnesses to what happened with “Eldridge” and those who allegedly personally saw sheets of paper with calculations made in Einstein’s handwriting were discovered. Even an old clipping from some “yellow” newspaper of those times was found, telling about sailors who got off the ship and instantly melted into thin air in front of many witnesses. Having collected this material, Jessup’s followers published a book called “The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility,” in which they used the information obtained, Allende’s letters and all of Jussup’s work. Later, 16 more bestsellers and 3 feature films were released. This is how the Philadelphia Experiment, whether it actually happened or not, gained worldwide fame.

So what really happened to the destroyer Eldridge? Was everything described in the book true or the imagination of the authors exaggerated to incredible proportions? Or did the experiment really take place, and the hype around the disappearance of the ship was raised only to hide its real results from the general public?

In search of truth

Since the publication of the book “The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility,” attempts to find out the truth have not stopped to this day. Many believe that everything written by Allende, Jessup and his followers is the pure truth.

For many years, the search for the same Carlos Miguel Allende was carried out, and both independent researchers and journalists, as well as government officials, searched for him. They used telephone books, mailing lists from address bureaus, information databases of morgues and police stations, even personal files of military personnel. Dozens of impostors gave interviews, stirring up interest in the topic and telling more and more “fried” facts about the Philadelphia experiment. At the same time, the American military departments, the White House and the Capitol were literally inundated with letters from concerned citizens who were interested in only one question: was the Philadelphia Experiment carried out or not? The government did not immediately answer these questions, further convincing the general public that the US Navy had something to hide. The Office of Naval Research published a refutation only on September 8, 1996 in an official communiqué, which denied the experiment as a fact. But interest in the topic did not disappear after this statement, but rather even reached a new level. A lot of refutations from independent experts and researchers appeared in the press and on television.

So even now, almost every year, more and more interesting facts about the sensational experiment appear. One of them was the recorded and published story of the American electronics engineer Edom Skilling: “In 1990, my friend Margaret Sandys invited me and my friends to visit Dr. Carl Leisler, her neighbor, to discuss some details of the Philadelphia Experiment. Carl Leisler, a physicist, was one of the scientists who worked on this project in 1943. They wanted to make a warship invisible to radar. A powerful electronic device such as a huge magnetron was installed on board. The magnetron is an ultrashort wave generator classified during World War II. This device received energy from electrical machines installed on the ship, the power of which was enough to supply electricity to a small city. The idea behind the experiment was that the very strong electromagnetic field around the ship would act as a shield for radar beams. When the magnetron started working, the ship disappeared. After some time he reappeared, but all the sailors on board were dead. Moreover, part of their corpses turned into steel - the material from which the ship was made. Leisler and his colleagues in the experiment believe that they sent the ship to another time, and the ship disintegrated into molecules, and when the reverse process occurred, a partial replacement of the organic molecules of human bodies with metal atoms occurred.”

Refutations

Of course, in addition to the “fans” of the story of the Philadelphia Experiment, there are also skeptics who flatly refuse to believe both in individual details of what happened and in the existence of the project as a whole. It must be admitted that their arguments also sound very convincing.

So, if you believe Allende’s letters and data found later, Albert Einstein took part in the work on the project. However, the US government did not trust the genius too much, because it was common knowledge that he openly sympathized with the communists. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover issued a harsh verdict: “Because of his radical views, Professor Einstein cannot be considered suitable for use in secret work, since it seems unlikely that a person of such a type would become a completely trustworthy American citizen in such a short time.” So at that time, Einstein was assigned only minor tasks that could not seriously affect the course of the war, and in 1943-1944 he worked for the US Navy Ordnance Department. It is safe to say that his work had nothing to do with electromagnetism, much less invisibility.

The second argument of those of little faith is that, according to the logs, the destroyer Eldridge could not have been in the port of Philadelphia in October 1943, since it was undergoing repairs at the Norfolk docks.

But the main argument was and remains the fact that the sailors who served on the destroyer Eldridge unanimously deny the fact of the experiment. In 1999, their first meeting since the end of the war took place in Atlantic City. By this time, only 15 people remained, including the 84-year-old captain. Of course, the meeting was not without questions about the Philadelphia Experiment, to which the captain and the rest of the sailors unanimously replied that they had no idea how this ridiculous story arose. For example, Ed Wise categorically stated that such a thing could only be invented "high on dope". And Ray Perrigno admitted: “When people asked me about the “experiment,” I agreed and said that yes, I was disappearing. True, they soon realized that I was playing them.”.

Data

But the facts remain facts - in 1943, many scientists in all the warring countries were concerned about the safety of sea vessels. Then a lot of experiments were carried out to protect the ship from the recently appeared magnetic mines and torpedoes. Such a procedure - degaussization - could make battleships and destroyers “invisible” to them. According to many researchers, the legend of the Philadelphia Experiment, created by Miguel Allende, could be based on one of these experiments that were carried out at that time, including in the port of Philadelphia.

Degaussization offered two options: repeatedly amplifying the ship's magnetic field so that the mines would explode at a distance without causing harm, or neutralizing the ship's own magnetic field so that even the most sensitive mine would not go off. The first method presupposed the presence of huge electric coils and an abundance of wires and equipment on board the ship. For protection according to the second option, the steel ship was equipped with a special, carefully selected personal belt that surrounded the entire hull. A current was supplied to the belt, making it a powerful electromagnet that neutralized the ship's magnetic field. By the way, after experiments it became clear that the latter proved to be better.

Naturally, during the degaussization work, some instruments on board the ship, for example, mechanical clocks or magnetic compasses, literally went crazy or instantly failed. It is not surprising that many stories appeared among sailors about such mysterious cases, where the facts were generously flavored with fiction. In addition, the procedure for demagnetizing a ship and changing its own magnetic field was at first a strictly secret military development, so there was a lack of facts about such experiments. But there were plenty of rumors.

Probably, Miguel Allende saw a similar procedure somewhere or heard about it and figured out what was missing: incomprehensible equipment, huge machines and a secret government experiment could impress and inspire anyone. Over time, it was also explained how the idea of ​​​​the invisibility and disappearance of the ship could come into his head. Journalist John Keel, a researcher of the Philadelphia phenomenon, wrote in his book: “During World War II, magician Joseph Danninger, an expert in performing arts, suggested that the US Navy make their ships invisible. Perhaps Dunninger had in mind a cunning trick or a special disguise, but at the time his proposal received wide publicity in the press. It is very possible that Allende saw these articles and invented his own story based on them.”

Another, no less convincing version says that Maurice Jessup made a fuss about the Philadelphia experiment not by accident, but with the aim of spreading misinformation in order to hide the real facts about the degaussification experiments and, most importantly, their results. But researchers disagree on whether Jessup wrote, as they say, “under dictation” from officials of the US Navy Department or whether he himself was a victim of misinformation cleverly launched by the unknown Mr. Allende.

Will the mystery of the destroyer Eldridge ever be solved? It is impossible to answer this question unequivocally. Time passes, and fewer and fewer people are left alive who could claim first-hand knowledge of the facts. It is quite possible that the truth will disappear into oblivion along with the witnesses - or those who call themselves such. Or maybe it will forever settle as a dead weight in the depths of some archives, in a folder marked “Top Secret.”

Planet magazine, September 2015

(C)Null transport?

Fans of the legend about the experiment
"Philadelphia" says that after the appearance of the destroyer "Eldridge" in
several tens of kilometers from Philadelphia on the open sea it turned out,
that some sailors are missing limbs, but their stumps are firmly
grown into the metal parts of the ship. in other words, molecules
human bodies and ship equipment mixed with each other,
as if man and machine were a single organism. This, they say
supporters of the theory, it is possible only with zero-transportation - instantaneous
moving objects at the molecular level. Although this is somehow not
I believe it, taking into account the fact that today there are successes in such experiments
Not a single scientist has achieved it.

Disappearance of people

According to rumors, some sailors from
"Eldridge" simply disappeared without a trace during the experiment and was declared
missing. True, no one published a list of missing people, and
There were no demonstrations of angry relatives of the missing...

Invisibility cloak?

Some claim that the Philadelphia experiment was started
US government to test technology that would allow
hide ships from enemy radars. However, judging by the fact that this
the technology was never used, it is unlikely that it was ready for
practical application in 1943. Or maybe the project was stopped,
because the experiment ended in failure? No answer...

Malicious aliens?..

Ufologist Morris Jessup, auto book "The Case for UFOs", after
war announced that he had found a witness who saw the disappearance of "Eldridge", and
that he was going to conduct his own investigation into the incident. That's just
No one ever saw the results of this investigation. Once in the evening
Jessup called his friend, promising to come and tell him about
sensational results of his investigation. But he never reached his friend
arrived, and the next day was found suffocated in his car
from exhaust gases. Investigators say Jessup committed suicide
due to family troubles. Or maybe aliens are to blame after all?..

Carlos Miguel Allende

And here is the man who deprived Jessup of peace. his name is Carlos Miguel
Allende. After Jessup's death, Allende publicly declared that
witnessed the Philadelphia experiment and knows a lot about it. Here
only everyone who communicated with him (by the way, including Jessup) recommended
him as a person, to put it mildly, with quirks. Or maybe it's all a trick
intelligence services?..

Or maybe the Russians are involved here?

Only die-hard conspiracy theorists believe in this version, but they believe passionately,
like all fanatics. In their opinion, Jessup still managed to unearth something
interesting information about the Philadelphia experiment, and not just “something”, but the whole
"invisibility cloak" technology for ships! Intelligence found out about this
Russians and tried to kidnap Jessup. But US intelligence found out about this and
She killed the ufologist-investigator first so that she wouldn’t fall to her enemies.
Twisted, right? There is only one weak point in this theory: the lack
any trace of this mysterious technology in the real world.

Where is the list of Eldridge sailors?

So, no one knows for sure whether the Eldridge sailors were victims
mysterious experiment or not. But one thing is certain: not one
the investigator over the past decades has not been able to obtain a list
sailors of the Eldridge as of October 1943. Meanwhile, at
The Navy command has such lists for each ship. It turns out that the military
have something to hide?..

Time travel?

The most mysterious version of the disappearance of "Eldridge" was announced in 1984
year in the feature film "The Philadelphia Experiment". According to this version,
the ship, in order to hide from enemy radar, did not travel through
space, but through time. And for a while he found himself in the future!
The version is exciting - but alas, as proof we can only cite
script of the film...

Green fog

So was there really a “Philadelphia” experiment, or didn’t it happen? To
to prove that something similar did happen, supporters
conspiracy theory, they found witnesses who claimed that in the bay
In Philadelphia on this day, a green fog suddenly formed, hiding
ship. It’s not easy to come up with such a prominent and memorable detail...
Of course, if they don’t tell you about it. So were the witnesses sincere, or
Are we just talking about the tricks of conspiracy theorists? No answer.

Some of the Eldridge's sailors have gone crazy.

Another proof found by supporters of the legend of the experiment
"Philadelphia". According to them, after the war, some sailors with
the ship "Eldridge" ended up in a psychiatric hospital after World War II
hospital. Did the green fog drive them crazy, or were they thrown into a mental hospital?
government agencies to ensure silence? Reply to this
the question is impossible - first of all, because no one has been able to
present a list of sailors who have gone mad. Deception again? Or better
secret services cover?

Did Einstein participate in the Philadelphia experiment?

Be that as it may, two acts are indisputable. First, Albert Einstein
In 1943 he actually worked for the US Navy. Secondly, at this time
somewhere in the depths of the lot, a certain experiment was actually being implemented
"Rainbow", associated with attempts to hide American ships from attention
enemy radars. Then the guesswork begins. Indeed, Albert
Einstein is a recognized genius, so wouldn't he have invented a way to do
destroyer invisible? Or you will order me not to believe in genius anymore
Einstein? By God, it’s much easier to believe in the disappearance of the Eldridge!

Department of Naval Research

Direct connection to existence in the US Navy Department
naval research and experiment "Philadelphia" no one can find
failed. However, conspiracy theorists find in existence itself
department semblance of evidence. Is it really possible that the whole department
failed to make war

Cinema is for experimentation!

In addition to conspiracy theorists, the Philadelphia experiment has another group
stubborn supporters are Hollywood filmmakers. First film
entitled "The Philadelphia Experiment" was filmed back in 1984, and in
In 2012, its full namesake appeared on the screens - the film "Experiment"
"Philadelphia", in which the same experiment was repeated a second time,
and with the participation of former Eldridge sailors. Everything turned out very
convincing, except for one thing: what about those merged with
metal handrails, disappeared and gone crazy? Were they invited too?

Second experiment?

According to the same sole witness of the "Iladelphia" experiment
Carlos Miguel Allende, the destroyer USS Eldridge disappeared at least twice.
As Allende explains, during his service on the destroyer Andrew Uruset,
while stationed in Norfolk, he and his colleagues saw the first
disappearance of the Eldridge. It supposedly happened a few months before
the infamous Philadelphia experiment. But, apparently, at that time
something went wrong, and so the experiment had to be repeated. However,
There were no other supporters of the version of the second experiment, besides Allende.
announced. Maybe because Hollywood abandoned the film "Experiment"
Is Norfolk still at the script stage?

Testimony of Robert Gorman

Robert Gorman is another amateur investigator who published
a number of materials about the Philadelphia experiment. Necessary
to say, he did not have a single real proof of his views
brought. But at least with his emergence of public conspiracy theorists,
confident in the reality of the experiment has increased by 50% - if
remember Allende and Jessup.

This mystery has haunted people's minds for more than 70 years. The Philadelphia Experiment has been called either the world's biggest military secret or science fiction. He inspired the work of many researchers, writers and filmmakers.

Based on this story, several films were released in 1984, 1993 and 2012 under the name “The Philadelphia Experiment”.

History details

It all started in 1955 after the publication of the book “The Case for UFOs.” Its author, astronomer Morris Jessup, spent a long time researching information about UFOs. Jessup believed that aliens warped cosmic time in order to cross vast interstellar distances.

Unfortunately for the astronomer, UFOs attracted more attention from Hollywood than from the scientific community, so the scientist’s research was not taken seriously.

After the book was published, Jessup received a letter that changed his life. The author of the letter had a positive attitude towards the work of the ufologist and said that the facts described are similar to what he himself experienced.

The man introduced himself as Carlos Miguel Allende. He told Jessup in detail about the Philadelphia Experiment.

The letter says that 12 years ago during World War II, the Navy conducted complex experiments on the destroyer Eldridge. During the experiments, the warship literally disappeared into thin air.

Once the destroyer moved 320 kilometers, appeared, then disappeared and ended up in its original place in Philadelphia.

The technology that made the ship invisible is attributed to Albert Einstein. The great genius secretly developed the Unified Field Theory. The theory combines the fields of electromagnetism and gravity into one field.

Einstein did say that he worked on this theory, but he never tested it.

Using data from the Unified Field Theory, one can deform the flow of light, change the relationship of space and time, make things invisible, or teleport objects.

Did the experiment fail?

But the technology of the experiment was imperfect. The first time the ship disappeared and reappeared, many sailors were injured. The second time almost all crew members were injured. Some became part of the ship in the literal sense of the word, others went crazy. The surviving sailors signed a confidentiality agreement.

Allende claimed that he watched what was happening from a nearby ship. The letter's author also said he risked the wrath of the Navy because he divulged a national secret.

After reading the letter, Jessup didn't know what to think. Either this is one of the most secret secrets of the country, or the ravings of a madman. There is no man named Carlos Miguel Allende in the Navy, and no part of the story matches the official documents. According to military logs, the Eldridge was in the Bahamas at the time.

Interestingly, in 1943, right around the time of the supposed disappearance of the destroyer, Albert Einstein was actually working with the US Navy on a project related to the Unified Field Theory.

Morris Jessup spent months studying military archives, trying to find at least some clue on this case, but to no avail.

Some researchers later claimed to have discovered the man behind the name Allende. It turned out to be Carl Allen, originally from Pennsylvania. The man suffered from a mental disorder. Carl Allen served in the Navy during World War II.

The fate of Morris Jessup

In the spring of 1957, Morris Jessup was called to Washington to work at the Naval Research Office. The ufologist turned out to be a suspect.

The man was shown a copy of his book, which stated that aliens were capable of deforming space-time. The book was covered with notes, and the military wanted to know who made them. The Navy became interested in this topic.

Despite the close attention of the military, Jessup continued to search for a way in which UFOs and the fleet could overcome the barriers of space-time. But still, the astronomer told a friend that he began to receive strange phone calls and thought that someone was stalking him.

Jessup's ex-wife said Allende wanted to meet him at the time.

Dr. Reed, who examined the body, declared Jessup's death a suicide. No autopsy was performed.

Time travel

But the story of the missing ship did not end there. Al Bilek gave a sensational interview to the press in 1992. He claimed to have participated in the famous Philadelphia Experiment.

The destroyer test was part of the larger Montauk Project, which took place for many years at a secret military base in Montauk, New York.

The goal of the Montauk project, according to Bilek, is the creation of psychological weapons and mental objects, the study of the properties of super-resistant electromagnetic fields for time travel and teleportation.

Al Bilek claimed that on August 13, 1943, he was aboard a destroyer that mysteriously disappeared. The man talked about traveling to the future. According to him, he lived for about six weeks in 2137, and then in 2749.

Bilek described in detail how he lived in the future, and about the structure of the world seven hundred years later. According to him, strong geographic changes began to occur on the planet before 2025. Sea levels rose and the magnetic poles began to move. The population dropped to 300 million people. At a certain point, war broke out between Russia and China, as well as the USA and Europe.

In 2749, Bilek saw some land supports and floating cities. Instead of a government, everything was controlled by a computer system. People were provided with basic goods necessary for life.

From 2749, Bilek traveled to 2013, where he met brother Duncan. Then they were both returned to their “native” year of 1983.

Another witness

Electrical engineer and inventor Preston Nichols says he worked on the Montauk Project for 10 years. The engineer wrote the book Montauk: Experiments with Time.

Nichols claims that after the disappearance of the destroyer in Philadelphia, experiments did not stop. Scientists continued to electronically examine the brain and influence the human mind.

The engineer also spoke about the Philadelphia experiment. The tests were stopped after failure with the crew. It was too risky to continue.

The project leader, Dr. John von Neumann, was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.

At the end of the 40s, research was resumed and continued until 1983. According to Nichols, scientists managed to break through space-time to 1943.

Armament

Same type ships

A total of 72 ships were built:

USS Gandy (DE 764), USS Acree (DE 167), USS Alger (DE 101), USS Amick (DE 168), USS Atherton (DE 169), USS Baker (DE 190), USS Bangust (DE 739), USS Baron (DE 166), USS Booth (DE 170), USS Bostwick (DE 103), USS Breeman (DE 104), USS Bright (DE 747), USS Bronstein (DE 189), USS Burrows (DE 105), USS Cannon (DE 99), USS Carroll (DE 171), USS Carter (DE 112), USS Cates (DE 763), USS Christopher (DE 100), USS Clarence L. Evans (DE 113), USS Coffman (DE 191), USS Cooner (DE 172), USS Curtis W. Howard (DE 752), USS Earl K. Olsen (DE 765), USS Ebert (DE 768), USS Eisner (DE 192), USS Eldridge (DE 173), USS Garfield Thomas (DE 193), USS Gaynier (DE 751), USS George M. Campbell (DE 773), USS Gustafson (DE 182), USS Hemminger (DE 746), USS Herzog (DE 178), USS Hilbert (DE 742) , USS John J. Van Buren (DE 753), USS Kyne (DE 744), USS Lamons (DE 743), USS Levy (DE 162), USS Marts (DE 174), USS McAnn (DE 179), USS McClelland ( DE 750), USS McConnell (DE 163), USS Micka (DE 176), USS Milton Lewis (DE 772), USS Muir (DE 770), USS Neal A. Scott (DE 769), USS O'Neill (DE 188 ), USS Osterhaus (DE 164), USS Oswald (DE 767), USS Parks (DE 165), USS Pennewill (DE 175), USS Reybold (DE 177), USS Riddle (DE 185), USS Rinehart (DE 196) , USS Roberts (DE 749), USS Roche (DE 197), USS Russell M. Cox (DE 774), USS Samuel S. Miles (DE 183), USS Slater (DE 766), USS Snyder (DE 745), USS Stern (DE 187), USS Straub (DE 181), USS Sutton (DE 771), USS Swearer (DE 186), USS Thomas (ii) (DE 102), USS Thornhill (DE 195), USS Tills (DE 748) , USS Trumpeter (DE 180), USS Waterman (DE 740), USS Weaver (DE 741), USS Wesson (DE 184), USS Wingfield (DE 194),

USS Eldridge (DE-173) - escort-class destroyer Cannon, named in honor of Lieutenant Commander John Eldridge, Jr., who was killed in air combat in the Solomon Islands on November 2, 1942 and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. The ship took part in escorting convoys in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans during the Second World War and was awarded 5 medals. He also became the object of everyone's attention thanks to the myth of the "Philadelphia Experiment". Sold to Greece on June 17, 1946, and scrapped on November 11, 1999.

History of creation

Prerequisites for creation

The ability of enemy submarines to block supply lines and destroy them was the only reason for the presence of a destroyer in a convoy. Since she was the only surface fast unit that could effectively locate, attack and destroy a submarine, it was logical to create a ship that would concentrate on destroying the submarine and thus free up destroyers for fast missions. That's why one of the escort destroyers was created Eldridge (DE-173).

Power plant and driving performance

Engine model 16-278A GM

The escort destroyers were equipped with various power plants. Since escort destroyers were not more in demand than aircraft carriers, battleships and destroyers, there was no need to install steam turbines on them. Any type of power supply that was available at the time the order was received was installed. Thus, escort destroyers could be powered by diesel, diesel-electric, turbo steam engines and turbo steam electric motors.

The Eldridge (DE-173) was powered by 16-278A GM diesel engines manufactured by engineers at the Cleveland Diesel Engine Division of General Motors Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio. General Motors engines, also known as Winton V-types, evolved over several years, and their later models proved to be very reliable in wartime use. The General Motors Model 16-278A engine was a 16-cylinder V-type engine with 2 banks of 8 cylinders each. The engine operated on the principle of a 2-stroke cycle and was designed for 1600 hp. at 750 rpm. The bore and depth of the 16-278A GM engine are 8 3/4 inches and 10 1/2 inches, respectively.

Auxiliary/anti-aircraft artillery

Mine and torpedo weapons

3 x 21" Mk.15 TT torpedo tubes

1 × Hedgehog Mk.10 (144 pieces) mines

8 x Mk.6 depth charges

2 x Mk.9 depth charges

Service history

After the ship Eldridge (DE-173) Commissioned on August 27, 1943, it remained in New York Long Island Sound until September 16, 1943. On September 18, 1943, he headed for Bermuda, where he stopped and underwent sea trials and training. On October 15, 1943, with part of the convoy, the ship left the Bermuda area, heading to New York.

Between January 4, 1944 and May 9, 1945, an escort destroyer Eldridge It was necessary to carry out the task of escorting a convoy of vulnerable ships loaded with critical materials and transporting ground troops in support of Allied operations in North Africa, as well as in southern Europe. The route was laid across the Mediterranean Sea, as a result of which he made nine voyages, safely delivering convoys to Oran, Bizerte and Casablanca. The warship then docked in New York.

Eldridge departed New York on May 28, 1945 for missions in the Pacific. She arrived in Okinawa on August 7, 1945, along with local escorts and patrol ships. He continued to serve as escort on the Saipan-Ulichi-Okinawa routes until November 1945. Eldridge was withdrawn from service on June 17, 1946 at Green Cove Springs, Florida and placed in the Reserve Fleet. On 15 January 1951, she was transferred from the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, to the Royal Hellenic Navy, along with three other Cannon-class destroyer escorts. These were USS Slater DE-766, USS Ebert DE-768 And USS Garfield Thomas DE-193. This transfer was made in accordance with the provisions of the United States Mutual Defense Assistance Program.

HNS Leon D-54(previously USS Eldridge DE-173 listen)) served in the Royal Hellenic Navy from 15 January 1951 until it was decommissioned on 15 November 1992. Further Eldridge used as a training ship. On November 11, 1999, it was scrapped at V&J Scrap Metal Trading Ltd of Peiraia in Greece.

Commanders

Awards

Campaign Feeds

Medals: American Campaign, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign, World War Two Victory, Navy Occupation.

Famous myth or reality

Historical facts

In the second half of the twentieth century, residents of the United States and other countries were shocked by rumors of an incredible physical experiment in which a warship was a participant. Eldridge (DE-173). According to legend, on an October morning in 1943, an escort destroyer Eldridge, located at the Philadelphia naval base, was used to test electromagnetic equipment that makes the ship invisible. The basis for the creation of the device was the “Unified Field” theory of the American physicist Albert Einstein and the works of the Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla. At the beginning of a grandiose experiment called "Rainbow", the ship Eldridge a greenish fog enveloped, and the ship began to dissolve in the air, and then disappeared completely, leaving a depression in the water. Meanwhile, eyewitnesses located near another base, Norflock, noticed the same sudden appearance of a ship Eldridge, like his disappearance. The ship then "teleported" from Norflock harbor back to the Philadelphia base, with the escort destroyer's crew visibly damaged. In order not to notify the public about the incident at the naval base, it was allegedly decided to classify all documents about the course of the experiment, and hide the surviving sailors of the ship in clinics for the mentally ill.

This is what the legend looked like until facts began to emerge that refuted this experiment on an escort destroyer. Eldridge. The founder of the myth turned out to be Carl Miguel Allen, who sent strangely designed letters to ufologist Morris K. Jessup, under the pseudonym Carlos Miguel Allende. These messages precisely described everything that happened at the Philadelphia base with the ship and its crew: “... as a result, the ship was enveloped in a certain field, shaped like an ellipsoid. Everything, objects and people that fell into the field had blurry outlines... Half of the crew members of that ship are now insane...” Allende also noted what happened to some of the surviving sailors: “One walked through the wall of his own apartment and disappeared in front of his wife, child and two guests. Two other officers burst into flames and burned out..." And in the last letter, Carlos admitted that he served on the ship “Andrew Fureset” and personally observed the progress of the experiment from it. Morris Jessup showed little interest in these letters. However, a copy of his book, The Case for UFOs, covered in Allende's writing, arrived in the mail at the Office of Naval Research at the Pentagon and was reprinted by the military J. J. Smith with the same strange notes.

On April 20, 1959, Morris Jessup died on the way to the hospital from an overdose of sleeping pills, and ufologists began to say that he “knew a lot,” for which he paid. The myth began to become widely known. The researchers of anomalous phenomena, Charles Berlitz and William Moore, decided to take up the invention, and were honored with a personal conversation with “Mr. Allende.” In 1979, Berlitz and Moore's best-selling book The Philadelphia Experiment was published, based on Carlos Miguel's stories about the experience on a destroyer escort. Eldridge.
In the early 90s, skeptical researcher Robert Goerman decided to shed light on the myth of the disappearance of the ship, since he was one of the recipients of Allende's letters. While searching for the author of the messages, he learned that Carlos was an American, born in Pennsylvania in 1925, and that his real name, Allen, had long been known in the ufological community. “Allen wrote to me and other researchers for many years,” says ufologist Lauren Coleman. “He suffered from mental illness and often moved from motel to motel. Allen's family showed Robert Goerman letters in which he admits that he made up the entire story about the destroyer from beginning to end and sent Jessup's book, which he personally wrote, to the military."

The meeting of the Eldridge and Andrew Furacet ships in 1943 at the naval base in Philadelphia was also questioned. Throughout the fall and December of 1943, the escort destroyer accompanied convoys heading to the US capital, which means that it could not have been in Philadelphia at that time. As for the name of the experiment, “Rainbow” has nothing to do with the “Philadelphia Experiment”. During World War II, "Rainbow" was one of the headquarters plans for possible military actions against the Axis countries Rome - Berlin - Tokyo.

A refutation of the fact that Einstein and Tesla worked together on the experiment also exists. The fact is that the great Serbian physicist did not even live to see the launch of the ship Eldridge to the water. And Einstein, according to FBI Director Edgar Hoover, was an unreliable person, since he showed greater sympathy for communism than for capitalism. It was not possible to entrust a scientific project classified as “Secret” to a physicist.

However, a small part of the myth is quite true. The US Navy used a process called degaussization on some ships to make the ship "invisible" to magnetically detonated mines. The ship was equipped with a “belt”, which, when connected to a current source, became a powerful electromagnet. Degaussization allowed two types of action: when the magnetic field was repeatedly strengthened, the mines exploded in the distance, and when the ship’s magnetic field was suppressed, the ship became invisible to the mines.

The assembled sailors of that same ship were able to finally destroy the myth Eldridge in 1999 in Atlantic City. The ship's captain, Van Allen, 84, said: "I have no idea how this story came about." He was also supported by other sailors. “I think somebody came up with this while they were high,” said 74-year-old Ed Wise. “No experiments have ever been done with us,” said Ted Davis.

The story of “Eldridge” is incredibly complicated, in particular due to the huge number of insinuations based on the “testimonies” of eyewitnesses and interviews with supposedly real participants in those events. This legend has everything to become an ideal conspiracy theory: the big names of Tesla and Einstein, an inhumane experiment that resulted in the death of almost the entire team, the wonders of the electromagnetic field, a crazy retired sailor and an unlucky mystical writer.

Destroyer Eldridge. (wikimedia.org)

The synopsis of The Philadelphia Experiment goes something like this: At the height of World War II, the US military was working to create technology that would make objects invisible. This technology, as follows from the narrative, was based on Albert Einstein’s unified field theory. It was assumed that the generation of a powerful electromagnetic field around an object could lead to the formation of a certain ring of light and radio waves, which would make it completely invisible to the eye.

And so, allegedly in 1943, the US Navy conducted field tests, as a result of which they managed not only to “dissolve” the entire destroyer Eldridge in the air, but also to move it in space 320 km from the harbor in Philadelphia to the port of Norfolk and then return it back. The first experiments took place in the summer of 1943, when the ship was made invisible for a short period of time, after which the ship’s crew felt very bad, but overall no one was hurt.

The case we are looking for dates back to October of the same year, when “something went wrong.” Movement in space led to terrifying consequences: most of the crew of the destroyer Eldridge, consisting of 181 people, died during the experiment, some lost their minds, several more people found themselves “grown” into the hull of the ship, others simply burned out like matches, and only several managed to remain relatively intact and more or less sane. But even those few survivors experienced the consequences of the experiment: they could pass through walls and move in space.

The experiment, of course, was considered a failure, and the fact of its implementation was hushed up for many years. This is the version of the supporters of the “Philadelphia Experiment”. There are also some deviations, according to which, the Navy was not working on the disappearance of the ship in the literal sense, but on creating a field around the ship’s hull that would make it invisible to radars and magnetic underwater mines, but during the experiment, again, everything went wrong plan.

Still from the film "The Philadelphia Experiment". (pinterest.com)

The “debunker” of the experiment was a certain Carlos Allende, who outlined the above story. In 1955, the mystical writer Morris Jessup, who was interested in ufology, received a message from the mysterious Mr. Allende, who vividly described the course of the experiment and its consequences. The text was written in a bizarre manner, with a huge number of spelling errors, capital letters in the middle of the sentence, and, moreover, was written in colored pencils. Here is his excerpt (the features of the author’s presentation are preserved):

The “result” was the complete invisibility of a ship, such as the Destroyer, and its entire crew, On the Open Sea (Oct. 1943) The Field Acted in the form of a flattened sphere, elongated a hundred yards (More or Less due to the position of the Moon and Latitude) on both sides of the ship . Each Person Inside this sphere became transparent in form, BUT He also saw that the rest of the People on board the ship were in the same state, and at the same time they were walking on air. Every person outside this sphere saw Nothing other than the clearly defined silhouette of a Ship's Hull in the Water, PROVIDED, of course, that person was close enough to see, albeit out of bounds. Why am I telling you this now? Very simple; If you decide to go CRAZY, then you will make this information public. Half of the officers and crew of that Ship are currently completely Mad. Some are STILL in restricted areas where they are Possibly receiving Scientific Help when they either "Go Empty" or "Become Empty and Stuck". Becoming Hollow is NOT such an unpleasant experience for Healthy, Curious Sailors. However, once they are "Stuck", they describe it as "HELL CORPORATION" A person in a stuck state cannot move of his own accord until two or more of those in the field come and touch him, quickly, otherwise he "Freezes".

Allende claimed that in 1943 he served on the ship "Andrew Fureset", which at that time was in the same port as the "Eldridge", and personally observed the events described above. Carlos explained that it was no coincidence that he chose Jessup as the addressee: he was extremely interested in the writer’s works on UFOs. Around the same time, Jessup's book, The Expanded Case for UFOs, with similar multi-colored notes in the margins, arrived at the Office of Naval Research at the Pentagon, and for some reason the military did not ignore it, but published it in a small edition. In 1959, the writer committed suicide by mixing a large dose of sleeping pills with alcohol and locking himself in a car with a hose from the exhaust pipe. The cause of suicide, as the family believed, was difficult life circumstances: troubles in his personal life and large debts. However, Jessup’s death did not go unnoticed: conspiracy theorists spun the case, suggesting that the writer was simply “removed” because he had gone too far in his investigation.

In 1979, the book “The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility” was published by two ufologist writers Charles Berlitz and William Moore, in which the events were presented in the same vein as in Allende’s message. The work became a bestseller, and interest in this story flared up with renewed vigor. It is unknown whether the mysterious Carlos Allende actually existed, or whether he is a figment of Jessup's imagination. According to one version, under this name was hiding the American Carl Allen, who suffered from a mental disorder and during his life wrote many similar letters addressed to researchers of anomalies and mysteries.

In reality, the destroyer Eldridge was launched in August 1943 in New York, where it remained until September, and in October the ship made its first test voyage to the Bahamas, and did not enter the port of Philadelphia at all. It also turned out that the ship “Andrew Fureset” (on which Allende-Allen could have served) and the destroyer did not overlap in terms of time, and could not possibly stand in the same harbor. Convinced supporters of the “experiment” claim that for purposes of conspiracy, the name of the ship docked in the port of Philadelphia was changed.

A photo of a page from the Eldridge's log book. (wikimedia.org)

However, even if the Eldridge had actually been there in October 1943, its movement to Norfolk, 200 miles away, and back could have been accomplished in less than 24 hours via the Chesapeake-Delaware Canal, which During World War II it was protected from German submarines and was used only by military vessels. This explains how a warship could travel in 6 hours a journey that took merchant ships several days, and the “movement in space” was not so rapid. However, according to the ship's logs, the Eldridge did not even come close to Philadelphia in the fall of 1943.

In 1996, the US Navy Office of Naval Research was forced to publish an official refutation. By that time, the number of crazy publications in the yellow press had reached its peak. The communiqué noted that during World War II, “research on demagnetizing ships, as a result of which they became “invisible” to magnetic mines,” was carried out on the territory of the Philadelphia docks. It was separately emphasized that the department “never conducted any experiments to achieve invisibility, either in 1943 or ever before.”

As for the names Tesla and Einstein, which are often mentioned in connection with the experiment, there is no evidence of their participation in the project. It is worth noting that Nikola Tesla died on January 7, 1943, and Albert Einstein was on the list of unreliable citizens because of his “leftist” political views and could hardly have served in the Navy.

It is believed that the veterans who served on the Eldridge put the finishing touches on the Philadelphia Experiment. In 1999, a meeting of the destroyer crew took place, which was attended, among other things, by the captain of the ship. None of the sailors could find a reasonable explanation for the conspiracy theory and guess where it came from.

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A humorous story by Soviet writer Andrei Nekrasov. The book was first published in the Pioneer magazine in 1937, in an abridged form (or rather in the form of illustrations with captions, that is, actually in the form of a comic book), a full-fledged book edition was published in 1939. The story parodies both popular stories about sailors in the 30s of the 20th century, as well as stereotypes about foreigners and individual states. The main character of the book is Captain Vrungel, whose surname parodies the surname Wrangel, the first part of this surname uses the word “liar”. Vrungel, whose name has become a household name, is the maritime equivalent of Baron Munchausen, telling tall tales about his sailing adventures. Well, tell me!

• 1 History of creation
• 2 Plot
• 3 Main characters
• 4 Route of Vrungel's circumnavigation
• 5 Film adaptations
• 6 Interesting facts
• 7 Notes
• 8 Links

History of creation

Andrei Nekrasov, before becoming a writer, changed many professions, he himself was a sailor and traveler, and visited many corners of the Earth. He wrote down stories and tales that his comrades told. Boris Zhitkov advised Andrey to write a book. The prototype of Vrungel was an acquaintance of Nekrasov with the characteristic surname Vronsky, a lover of telling maritime fables with his participation. His last name was so suitable for the main character that the book was originally supposed to be called “The Adventures of Captain Vronsky,” but for fear of offending his friend, the author was forced to look for a different last name.

The prototype of one of the main characters, senior mate Lom, in his story was naval school cadet Ivan Mann. This character's last name in German means "man" (Mann), and in French "man" is "l'homme" (sounds like the Russian "Scrap").

Plot

The book begins with a prologue in which the author introduces readers to the teacher of the navigation school, Christopher Bonifatievich Vrungel, who for a long time remained for the students a handsome land “nerd” and only thanks to chance discovered his true face as an experienced sailor. In the future, the narration is told on behalf of Vrungel himself as an oral story about the trip he once made around the world.

The main character, already a respectable and honored, but still cheerful captain, decides to shake off the old days and go on a “sport trip around the world” on a forty-foot sailing yacht, taking with him only an assistant. In this capacity, his choice falls on a sailor named Lom, a well-trained two-meter tall bruiser. The yacht, repaired for the voyage, receives the resounding name “Victory”, but at the start there is a public embarrassment - the ship cannot set sail, despite a fair wind. The perplexed crew has to ask for help from a tugboat, which tears off the yacht along with a piece of the shore: as it turns out, during the preparation for the voyage, the Pobeda managed to firmly adhere to the shore with a side made of freshly sawn boards. As a result of this accident, the board with the name of the ship loses the first two gilded letters, which is why the yacht then has to be called nothing more than “Trouble.” Having lost a day to rectify the situation, Vrungel sails from Leningrad, on the way he uses Loma’s rare nose for alcohol to his advantage, and on the shores of Norway he visits a picturesque fjord, where, due to a forest fire, the ship ends up with “a load of squirrels alive without counting.” At Dogger Bank, the captain receives an SOS signal on a sore tooth and saves the Norwegians from a sinking fishing sailboat; returning to Norway, he feeds the squirrels nut halva and pineapples and, with the help of cunning, gets rid of the criminals who tried to steal his bad tooth; in Germany, not without incident, he hands them over to the owner of the Hamburg zoo, Gadenbeck; in Holland, the captain conceives a logistics experiment and undertakes to escort a school of live herring to Cairo, for which purpose, through Loma, he hires another sailor - a type of unknown nationality from Calais named Fuchs. In England, Vrungel first wins a victory in gentleman's boxing on the shoulders of Fuchs, and then wins the big royal sailing race, taking into account the reactive properties of whiskey and soda in time. During the award ceremony, the team manages to avoid reprisals from their losing rivals, and the only fake but strong gold chain with an anchor that they got from the mountain of prizes (Fuchs managed to grab it) helps them not to let “Trouble” go free, and not to fall overboard themselves. The captain leads the ship into the Mediterranean Sea. Having managed to scare away a squadron of Franco pirates from the yacht with the help of the yacht’s overkill, the captain successfully brings a school of herring to Egypt. There, the heroes hand over the herring to a sales agent and go to explore the local attractions. In Egypt, troubles occur with Fuchs twice: once - when, while in the tomb, he tried to break off a piece of the sarcophagus “as a keepsake” and received a flashlight under his eye for this from the “English pharaoh” - a policeman; the second - when, seeing an ostrich walking in the wild, he tore a feather from its tail and the ostrich gave him a good thrashing. The crew then sails south through Suez to the Red Sea, where along the way they first endure a fight with a giraffe eager for Loma’s cooking (the offended giraffe eats a weather vane), and then undergo a night invasion of newborn crocodiles, which ended up in a box that supposedly contained ostriches bought in Egypt eggs, and hatched when Fuchs, who was overcome by an attack of either seasickness or tropical fever, lay down on the eggs and hatched them. One way or another, the crew of the yacht throws the crocodiles overboard. Off the coast of Eritrea, the "Trouble" is arrested by Italian fascists, but the sailors manage to escape from swindlers and bandits when Fuchs deceives the colonial authorities with the help of a "pasta plantation."

In the Indian Ocean, the yacht falls into a multi-day calm, and the crew begins to suffer from heat and idleness. At first, sea swimming saves the day, but during one of them, Fuchs is attacked by a shark. Only a lemon, successfully thrown by Vrungel into the shark’s mouth, saves poor Fuchs from it. At the equator, Vrungel tries to celebrate Neptune's Day according to the ancient tradition, but his companions almost decide that he has gone crazy from sunstroke. The wind returns, and “Trouble” reaches the southern Antarctic waters. Due to a careless gun shot (Vrungel shot at the tip of the iceberg to drive away a seal, which unceremoniously climbed onto the iceberg and immediately began scratching its sides with flippers), the yacht is picked up by an overturned iceberg, but Vrungel gets out of the situation by returning the ship to warmer waters, where there is ice melts and turns over again. The travelers again descend to the southern latitudes, where they meet a sperm whale with a cold. The compassionate Vrungel provides him with medical assistance with a shovel of aspirin, but good intentions turn into a mighty sneeze of a whale due to a gust of wind. The ship he picks up takes off under the clouds and falls straight onto the deck of some battleship, which is led by a powerful international committee that protects cetaceans from extinction through their extermination. The admirals, having learned that Vrungel did not harpoon the sick sperm whale he encountered, perceive this as a crime, which comes as a surprise to the crew of the Trouble. After several days of disputes, the whale-loving admirals, including a certain Admiral Kusaki (symbolizing the Japanese militarists) and his colleague Grabentrup, who was outraged by the insult to the sperm whale that had the Aryan skull, unload the “Trouble” onto a glacial uninhabited island, and themselves sail away to further resolve the issue. Vrungel and his companions reach hungry nightmares, but fate and ingenuity help them populate the island with a herd of well-fed penguins that sailed to the island on an ice floe. Having killed the worm for many days, the team arranges a bathhouse, melting a small glacier with the help of a huge fire made from the wreckage of ships that crashed off the island. The flying clouds fall with rain, and the red-hot rocks, unable to withstand the temperature difference, explode.

The crowbar and the yacht go missing. Vrungel and Fuchs, with a supply of fish boiled in the explosion, sail on boards across the Pacific Ocean, cross the International Date Line and get all the way to Hawaii. On the beach in Honolulu, the glamorous audience mistakes them for native Hawaiians, which helps the sailors earn a decent fee from the musical performance. Along the way, they learn about the crash of the “Trouble” off the coast of Brazil, where, due to fortunate oddities, they manage to fly on a plane with a single ticket under the guise of a very tall man in a long mackintosh, since the tailor did not have time to sew anything for them. The smoke from the pipe carelessly smoked by Vrungel under his mackintosh creates the illusion of a fire among those present, and the taken aback pilot undocks the entire passenger cabin from the plane, which lands directly in the Amazon using an emergency parachute. Taking advantage of the moment, Vrungel pretends to be a geography professor traveling through the Amazon with the Indian guide Fuchs. To complete the picture, he immediately very opportunely manages to gain authority among the passengers by winning a spectacular victory over a huge river anaconda constrictor with the help of fire extinguishers (the fire extinguishers, having met in the snake’s esophagus, collided with each other, discharged and pumped the boa from the inside with foam, resulting in the belly the reptile swelled up like a ball and made it impossible for her to dive into the water). Then he sews himself a new jacket from a parachute, using, however, bolts instead of buttons. Fuchs puts on a ready-made jumpsuit, found in an emergency supply.

After many days of sailing on the cabin and communicating with the local half-Ganster authorities, the heroes are reunited with Crowbar and “Trouble.” With the help of a cargo of sugar, they save the yacht from the machinations set up by Kusaka and sail to Australia. Upon arrival in Sydney, Vrungel plays golf with the harbourmaster and unexpectedly discovers that his caddy is Kusaki in disguise, who for some reason is stalking their team. After another adventure on the continent, the yacht sets sail again, but soon loses its mast, caught in a monstrous typhoon. When an attempt is made to replace the sails with a large kite, the wind blows the chief mate towards the shores of Japan. Having anchored on one island with the help of a huge slingshot, Vrungel and Fuchs replace the mast with a coconut palm planted directly on the ship. The palm tree takes root on the yacht and even begins to produce nuts. The yacht goes to rescue Loma, but already near Japan it is rammed at full speed by the destroyer Kusaki, and the Trouble, split in half, goes to the bottom. The heroes escape on a palm tree. Thanks to a board with the letters “TROUBLE”, they are picked up by a nearby ship heading to Canada. In order to earn money and quickly arrive at their destination, Vrungel and Fuchs replenish the staff of stokers, after which in the coal bunker they again meet Lom, who miraculously escaped from the Japanese police thanks to an earthquake. In Canada, the trio buys a sled and a couple of animals: a deer, which later turns out to be a tailless cow with false antlers attached, and a sled husky, which turns out to be a young wolf cub. The heroes manage to achieve a positive result from two minuses by first shoeing a cow dancing on ice with the again useful letters “TROUBLE”, and then scaring it with a wolf harnessed behind it. The phenomenal speed of the resulting team allows the sailors to accidentally win another race on their way through Alaska. Having overcome the ice of the Bering Strait, the heroes end their journey in Kamchatka. The warm welcome provided by compatriots in Petropavlovsk turns into a new shock for friends when a double yacht “Trouble” with a crew of Vrungel’s doubles, Lom and Fuchs moored in the local port with a crowd of people. However, the real travelers quickly expose the impostors, who turn out to be Kusaki and his people. Then Vrungel and Fuchs leave, and Lom remains in Kamchatka. Vrungel becomes a teacher at the nautical school. Fuchs reforms and gets a job as an actor at a film studio: due to his textured appearance, they willingly take him on to play the role of villains. Lom becomes the captain of the new yacht "Trouble".

The book ends with “An intelligent maritime dictionary for stupid land readers.”

Main characters

Christopher Bonifatievich Vrungel- the main character and narrator on whose behalf the story is told. A plump, short man. An experienced sailor, respectable, reasonable, and not without ingenuity. Teaches navigation at a nautical school. At the time of the events of the story, he is no longer young and has many campaigns behind him.

Senior Mate Lom- a young sailor of enormous height and strength. He is simple-minded, naive, efficient, but takes all orders literally. Has a keen nose for alcohol. An excellent cook. According to completely accurate information from the book, voiced by Vrungel himself, Loma’s height is 7 feet and 6 inches, which, translated into the metric system, is 2 meters and 26.6 cm. Such growth may well indicate gigantism, which, in addition to high stature, leaves a certain imprint on mentality and social behavior. It is quite possible that Lom’s excessive “literality” and “dutifulness”, without taking into account the surrounding circumstances, is due precisely to this.

Fuchs- a Frenchman hired by Vrungel as a sailor. A professional card sharper from Calais, for whom service on the “Trouble” is a way to escape from former friends (“change the climate”). He is short, wears a stubbly beard and a wide-brimmed hat, and speaks four languages. Smart and cunning, a loyal comrade, knows how to find a way out of difficult situations. Doesn't miss an opportunity to steal something. In German, "Fuchs" means "fox".

Admiral Hamura Kusaki- The main villain of the book. Admiral of militaristic Japan during the time of Hirohito, a member of the Society for the Protection of Whale, which in reality is engaged in their extermination. Constantly intrigues the crew of the "Trouble" for no particular reason. He has great influence, is cruel and very insidious.

Vrungel's circumnavigation route

Leningrad (probably) - Öresund (Sund) - Kattegat - Skagerrak - Norway - Dogger Bank - Stavanger - Hamburg - Rotterdam - Calais - Southampton - Portsmouth - Bay of Biscay - Gibraltar - Alexandria - Cairo - Nile - Suez Canal - Suez - Eritrea - Aden - Cape Guardafui - Indian Ocean - Antarctica - Honolulu - Amazon River - Belem - Rio de Janeiro - Cape Horn - New Zealand - Sydney - New Guinea - Mariana Islands (probably) - Canada - Fort Yukon - St. Lawrence Island - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

The port from which Vrungel departs is not specified, see notes. The Mariana Islands were on Vrungel’s route from New Guinea to Russia. He stopped at one of the islands somewhere there to make a mast. All other geographical names are mentioned in the story.

Film adaptations

• Animated series “The Adventures of Captain Vrungel” by the Kievnauchfilm studio, 1976-1979. Using much of the comic scenes from the book, the animated series has a completely different central plot, based on Fuchs's theft of a Venus statue from a museum and the pursuit of "Trouble" by the Italian mafiosi. The plot plays out and parodies many realities and stereotypes of the times of the late “stagnation”. The author of the lyrics for the cartoon was the famous children's writer Efim Chepovetsky.
• Feature film “The New Adventures of Captain Vrungel” (1978) with the participation of Mikhail Pugovkin as the captain, scripted by Alexander Khmelik. The film is a continuation of the book, in which the pioneer Vasya Lopotukhin joins the crew.
• There were several episodes in the children's television show "Alarm Clock" with the participation of this character:
  • “Captain Vrungel at Neptune” (1983, in the role of Captain Vrungel - Yuri Volyntsev, in the role of his assistants - Elena Shanina and Alexander Lenkov);
  • "Full speed ahead!" (1984, in the role of Captain Vrungel - Yuri Volyntsev, in the role of his assistants - Elena Shanina and Alexander Lenkov);
  • “New Year's Adventures of Captain Vrungel” (1985, in the role of Captain Vrungel - Yuri Volyntsev, in the role of his assistant - Elena Shanina);
  • “Singing Latitudes” (1985, in the role of Captain Vrungel - Yuri Volyntsev, in the role of his assistants - Elena Shanina and Alexander Lenkov);
  • “Two Vrungels” (1985, in the role of captains Vrungels - Yuri Volyntsev and Mikhail Pugovkin).

• Based on the description of the route and dialogues, we can conclude that Vrungel knows English, German, French, Italian, Norwegian, Dutch and Portuguese.
• The story was written in 1937 and after the war was edited by the author several times: the final version states that the Italians managed to hang Mussolini, Norway survived the German occupation, and Italy and Norway were occupied by the Americans.
• In 1985, based on the story and cartoon of the same name, the musical audio tale “The Adventures of Captain Vrungel” was released on Melodiya records and Svema audio cassettes.
• In 1997, Oleg Myatelkov’s book “Captain Vrungel’s Nephew, or The Extraordinary Adventures of Captain Burunny” was published (St. Petersburg: Korona-print, 1997. - 320 pp. - ISBN 5-7931-0004-0).

Notes

1. Barons Wrangel and Munchausen
2. 1 2 The text of the story does not mention the name of the port of departure. The first mention of geographical objects is the Sound, Kattegat and Skagerrak straits, through which “Trouble” passes at the very beginning of the journey. From this it becomes clear that Vrungel’s journey began in the Baltic Sea. At the time of writing the story, practically the only Soviet port on the Baltic was Leningrad.
3. Children's TV show "ALARM CLOCK". Captain Vrungel at Neptune (1983) - YouTube
4. "Alarm clock" - "Full speed ahead!" (1984) - YouTube
5. YouTube
6. "Alarm Clock" - 2 Vrungels (1985) - YouTube

Links

• The history of the book, with illustrations
• Rotov, illustrations
• Map of the book's events on Google Maps

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