• 2003, 21 August: The Russian submarine K-159 sank off Kildin Island while she was being towed to a scrap yard. She sank about northwest of the island, near the entrance to Kola Bay. The sinking, which claimed the lives of nine of her ten crew, occurred during a gale. • 1992, 11 February: In the
submarine incident off Kildin Island,
USS Baton Rouge, a Los Angeles class nuclear attack submarine, collided with the Russian
Sierra-class submarine K-276 Kostroma some from the line that connects Tsypnavolok Cape and Kildin Island. The US Navy stated that the collision occurred more than from the shore, which is international waters. However, Russia uses a different set of rules for defining the boundary between territorial and international waters, and maintains that the collision took place within Russian territorial waters. Fortunately, the accident caused no injuries or deaths on either vessel. • 1943, 24 July: The British merchant vessel SS
Llandaff (4,825 grt) was part of a three-vessel convoy bringing timber from the
White Sea to
Kola Inlet on behalf of the Russians. The vessels were some northeast of the island when a flight of four
Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters attacked
Llandaff, hitting her aft and starting a fire. helped to get the fire under control.
Llandaff eventually entered harbour; there were no casualties. • 1943, 2 January: While part of Convoy JW51B from Loch Ewe for Murmansk with military cargo, the American freighter
Ballot (6,131gt) ran aground on the island in fog and was a total loss. Her crew abandoned her on 13 January. In 2018 the Russian Northern Fleet's Search and Rescue unit's
Ivan Shvets diving boat and the
Elbrus multi-purpose logistics support vessel retrieved from 60m deep water one of the
M3 Lee tanks that was part of
Ballots cargo. • 1941, 4 August: Three German destroyers overwhelmed and sank the Soviet patrol boat
Tuman about northwest of Kildin. The incident became famous, a capsule of seawater from this point was embedded in the giant statue
Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War, and to this day Russian naval vessels passing by this point () dip their flags and sound a long blast on their horns in memory. • 1917, 22 October: The German submarine
U-46 fired a torpedo that sank
Zillah (3,788grt), which was en route from Archangel, Russia, to Lerwick, Shetland Islands, with a cargo of timber. The attack occurred without warning northeast of Kildin Island; the entire crew of 18 men died. • From the late 1860s and until 1930, some
Kola Norwegians emigrated to Kildin from
Finnmark. • 1809, 6 June: During the
Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812), boats from
HMS Nyaden attacked a fort on the island, capturing it and 22 or 23 vessels that were sheltering under its protection. The landing party took away some of the guns of the fort or threw them in the river. • 1599, 19–26 May: The Danish King
Christian IV visited Kildin on his first expedition as a King of
Denmark–Norway. The expedition, which set off from Kronborg, Elsinore, on 19 April, is in detail described in the diaries of Sivert Grubbe. • 1594, 23–29 June: The Dutch explorer,
Willem Barentsz visited Kildin Island on his first voyage while on his way to
Novaya Zemlya. ==See also==