Russian, Laden With Gifts, to Rejoin Ship
The Soviet ship’s steward who suffered a miscarriage at sea and was airlifted to a La Jolla hospital for treatment, will be returned to her fishing trawler today, taking with her some record albums and other gifts.
Svetlana Alexandrovna Prokudina, 26, is scheduled to rejoin her ship at about 9 p.m., when it anchors 4.6 nautical miles off Point Loma. A local firm has been hired to transport Prokudina by launch to the trawler Gnevnyy, said Scripps Memorial Hospital spokeswoman Diane Yohe. Prokudina was treated at the hospital on Tuesday, after the Coast Guard plucked her from the trawler and transported her here.
“We asked her if there was anything special that she wanted to take back with her, and she said that all she really wanted was a Michael Jackson ‘Thriller’ album and an album by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles,” Yohe said.
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