Junker Andrey Logginovich

(1800–?)

Russian military sailor.

In 1812 he entered the Marine Corps as a cadet, in 1817 he was promoted to a midshipman, and in 1820 - to a midshipman.

Juncker’s entire service is linked to the Baltic Fleet. In 1820, he participated in the campaign at Revel raid, in 1821-1823. cruising in the Baltic Sea, in 1824, the frigate Mercurius went from Kronstadt to Iceland.

In 1826 Junker in the rank of lieutenant was sent to Arkhangelsk and commanded the schooner number 2 in the inventory of the White Sea. At the end of the shooting in 1828, he moved from Kronstadt to the Archipelago and to Malta on the “Fershampenoise” ship during 1829-1831. cruising in the archipelago.

In 1834 he was promoted to lieutenant commander. "Top" service Juncker was circumnavigate the world to Kamchatka on transport "Abo" in the years 1840-1842.

Here are excerpts from the book by Alexander Norchenko "Chronicle of half-forgotten voyages":

On September 5, 1840, “Abo” with a displacement of 655 tons, recently built by Finnish shipyards, withdrew from the Great Kronstadt raid and set off for a round-the-world voyage to Kamchatka. He was commanded by Lieutenant-Commander Andrei Loginovich Juncker, who had sailed in the Baltic for more than 20 years and is fairly well known in the navy. True, more in their highly dubious human and professional qualities. Pavel Scott wrote about the reaction of the officers of the ship, who found out who their commander would be: “We already saw at the very beginning what kind of Mr. Juncker was and foresaw the future sad results of our campaign”. And as the water looked.

The officer corps at Abo was quite qualified. Lieutenants Pavel Scot and Peter Bessarabsky are future famous Russian sailors and admirals. He served to the admiral ranks and senior officer, a representative of the glorious maritime dynasty, Lieutenant Alexei Butakov. The senior navigator, warrant officer of the corps of naval navigators Christian Klet, went through a stern maritime school with the wonderful commander Vasily Khromchenko and one of the best navigators of the time, Alexander Kashevarov. The health and vigorous condition of the crew were entrusted to the care of the experienced head physician Ivan Isaev.

Back in Kronstadt, putting all the worries in preparing the Abo to sail on the shoulders of a senior officer and taking possession of the ship’s cash, Juncker dropped everything and hit Petersburg on a spree, dropping a huge amount of money into the cards. How did such a drunkard, gambler and mota, a weak professional, be appointed commander? Juncker was a protégé of the chief of the Main Naval Staff of the Most High Prince A.S. Menshikov.

On board the ship, Junker behaved like a “wild” gentleman in his estate. Constantly finding fault and mocking the lower ranks, officers tried to quarrel among themselves. And at the first entry into Copenhagen, he performed a wild orgy on the shore at public expense. A similar spree was repeated in other ports.

The situation on the “Abo” heated up more and more, and trouble struck. The transport got into the strongest tropical hurricane on the night of April 1, 1841. It was here that the helplessness and inaction of the commander were fully manifested. The barometer falls sharply and quickly, but the Abo carries an additional sail of licel.Obviously having missed the approach of the storm, the commander still sends people up to clean the sails, but it's too late. And then he just waited for the “divine will” when he would take down the branches on all the masts, because only with this there was a chance not to roll over and be saved. And this chance fell out. Transport "Abo" was the only one in the history of our sailing ships, caught in the deadly whirlwind of a tropical hurricane and survived in it. The ship managed to escape from death almost by accident, thanks to the strength of the vessel and the courage of the crew.

But the troubles and hardships on the Abo did not end there. Anchored in the Nicobar Islands. Sailors captain sent to the jungle for logging, to restore the mast of the vessel. Almost all of them fell ill with tropical fever. Until September 20, 1841, 13 people died on the way to Kamchatka.

In Kamchatka, instead of unloading and leaving faster, Junker hit another spree on the last money. He demanded from the honest headmaster Ivan Isaev to write off his expenses for drinking as medical expenses. He did not agree, and the commander threatened to dismiss him. And then something unprecedented in the history of our navigation occurred: Lieutenant Butakov, on behalf of the officers, announced to Yunker that not one of them would go with him to the sea, unless he left the doctor alone. The captain chickened out and backed out. But from now on the officers did not greet and talk with their commander.

The last money Junker squandered, there was nothing for the crew to feed, and the second half of November had already arrived, and the Avachinsky Bay began to become covered with ice. It was not the first time for the captain to torment his people: he ordered to cut a canal in the ice to exit. And on November 24, they miraculously got into the Pacific Ocean. After that, another twenty days went under conditions of extreme cold and almost continuous winter storms.

A terrible storm on December 11 broke all that was possible on the deck. The blows of the waves were so strong that they smashed doors and hatches, broke metal parts, and smashed the ship's gig in half about the mainmast. There was no money for provisions in the ship's checkout, and for all the long grueling months of the hardest ocean voyage, officers and lower ranks ate rotten corned beef and wormy rusks.

And in February 1842, an ominous “guest” of long voyages, scurvy, came to Abo. When they went around Cape Horn, there were already thirty patients on board, of whom, by the arrival in Rio on April 10, six had died. People did not even have the strength to remove the sails — they simply cut off the tackle and they fell.

In Rio de Janeiro stood for two and a half months: it was necessary to restore the health and strength of the crew. Moreover, they had to buy food with money borrowed from the Russian envoy in Brazil. From Rio came out on June 26 and arrived in Copenhagen in September.

In his memoirs, the famous sea-swimmer Admiral I.I. Shantz wrote that in 1842, commanding the steamer Kamchatka, entered it in Copenhagen and met a Russian ship there that stood in such a crushed, deplorable and inappropriate form that it plunged him into "horror and perfect indignation." One can only imagine what the captain felt I rank Shants, commander of "licked" and sparkling "Kamchatka". Ivan Ivanovich, a cool and decisive man, dragged Juncker from some restaurant onto a ship, ordered him very firmly that Abo should act and leave immediately and not disgrace the Russian fleet. Otherwise, the vessel will be dragged in tow, and he, Schantz, will personally fill Yunker’s face.

The long-suffering transport "Abo" returned to the Bolshoi Kronstadt raid on October 13, 1842, after being in a voyage around the world for 769 days and losing 19 crew members. It seemed that everything was already behind ...

But immediately after the arrival, Junker filed a report to His Excellency Prince Menshikov, in which he accused the Abo officers of revolt and plot against him. But a more serious crime than a riot on the ship, in the fleet did not exist.

On this occasion, senior officer Alexei Butakov wrote: “Our captain turned out to be a scoundrel to the highest degree, who boosted 50 thousand or 60 government money, overcame 20 people out of 60 and dishonored the Russian uniform in different parts of the world.” At that time, this case was widely publicized, and the public was entirely on the side of the Abo transport officers. His favorite and protege was not touched by the brightest. On the contrary, he reassigned him to the command post. But Andrei Loginovich soon lost himself and became caught stealing, so that the benefactor quickly dismissed him from the fleet.

After leaving the service in the rank of captain I rank, Juncker nevertheless entered another unique line in the history of the fleet, becoming a police officer - a private bailiff of the 2nd Admiralty unit of St. Petersburg. And all three lieutenants from the Abo transport — Aleksey Butakov, Pavel Shekot, and Peter Bessarabsky — served the Russian navy for a long time and well.

An even more severe assessment of Junker’s personality is given in Vladimir Vrubel’s book “Among the Waves and Dunes”, published in Sevastopol in 2012.

The strait separating the island of Nelidov from the Obruchev peninsula in the south of Novaya Zemlya. He named by P.K. Pakhtusov in 1833.