Utö logs and photos 9.5.2015

9.5.2015	Received in the Utö Island, by Sangean ATS-909, and 7 m indoor wire
3930	R. Batavia	21.30-	35333	D
3980LSB	BSR	15.24-	25332	E
6265	R. Telstar (tent.)	17.59-	45343	D
6290	unid	18.27-	25332	mx
6300	unid	17.45-	35343	mx
6300	R. Verona	18.16-	35343	E, D
6380	unid	18.10-	35343	D
6385	unid	21.43-	45343	mx
6400	unid	18.05-	24332	mx
6424	Studio 52 (tent.)	18.08-	23332	mx
6950	Enterprise R.	20.32-	45343	It
6960LSB	BSR	14.08-	25342	E
7280LSB	BSR	15.42-	35343	E
7280AM?	BSR	16.00-	32322	E,
6295	R. Boomerang	20.53-	45444	D, E

 Utö Island photos:

Utö is a stronghold island, a lot of old and newer bunkers on the island.  

This helicopter field was also used when M/S Estonia sank,
many of the survivors and the dead were first taken to the island of Utö.

These three radars rotate all the time

Utö is a marine pilot base too, has been for about 300 years.

In the year 1939, the Utö fort battled against two Soviet battleships,
one of them presumably sank.
Utö was also attacked during the First World War, this time it was battleships
from the Imperial German navy, that attacked Utö in 1915.

Soldiers left the island a few years ago, but the devices are held in standby mode,
sometimes these guns are tested, such as in 2011:  
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M/V Torsholm ship wreck close to the shoreline of Utö, sank in 1967. 
A lot of ships have sunk in the nearby rocky waters.

This star-and-cross memorial at the south side of the island commemorates
 the wreck of the ship Draken, sank in 1929.
The ship ran aground on the reef of Örebåda during a storm.
Örebåda is a small rocky islet only 150 metres from the southernmost tip of Utö.
The sailors managed to get onto the rock, all except one, the ship’s carpenter,
who was washed away by the waves when he tried to board the lifeboat.
The sea raged with relentless force for about 36 hours and the islanders had no choice
 but to stand helplessly on the rocky shore looking down at the ten shipwrecked sailors.
When the sea finally calmed down and the islanders could go to Örebåda,
five of the men had perished, either drowned or frozen to death.

Park Victory commemorative candle holder in Utö Chapel,
on the candle holder are engraved the names of crew members
who perished in the accident,
 SS Park Victory sank on Christmas night 1947.
 Every Christmas Eve, the candles are lit in memory of the accident
 and the lives that were lost in it.
That window shows to the sinking place.

 More information about the Utö: http://www.uto.fi/2.0/history.php?lang=en