In this week's The Rest Is History we go back 35 years to 1986 in the Marlborough Sounds when the Russian luxury cruise ship Mikhail Lermentov steamed through the Tory Channel at dawn towards Picton on the last leg of a two week cruise. The ship never made it. Karyn speaks with journalist and historian, Tom O'Connor, about his research that became the book Death of a Cruise Ship: The mystery of the Mikhail Lermontov.
The Mikhail Lermontov listing to one side near Port Gore.EP/1989/1713/4 Soviet cruise liner the Mikhail Lermontov sinking in the Marlborough Sounds, taken ca 16 February 1986 by the skipper of a fishing boat. Photo: Supplied
