List of Russian sail frigates

This is a list of Russian sail frigates of the period 1694–1852:
The format is: Name, number of guns (rank/real amount), launch year (A = built in Arkhangelsk), fate (service = combat service, BU = broken up)

ail frigates of war

Early Russian frigates

*2 small frigates (1689, training vessels on Lake Pleshcheyevo) - Discarded 1723, burnt 1783
*"Sviatoi Apostol Pavel" 24 (1694, A) - In October 1694 sent from White Sea to France as a merchant ship with the state goods, captured by France just in harbour because sailed under the Dutch ensign during the War of the Grand Alliance
*"Sviatoye Prorochestvo" 44 ("Santa Prophetia") (1694, Dutch-built for Russia) - Converted to merchant vessel after 1695 and sent from Arkhangelsk to Europe with goods, last mentioned 1694

"Sviatogo Dukha"-class (2 units)

*"Sviatogo Dukha" 12 (1702, A) - Dragged over the land to Lake Onega 1702, sailed to Lake Ladoga and participated in assault of Nöteburg 1702, last mentioned 1702 (probably damaged by ice and wrecked in winter 1702/1703)
*"Kur‘yer" 12 (1702, A) - Dragged over the land to Lake Onega 1702, sailed to Lake Ladoga and participated in assault of Nöteburg 1702, last mentioned 1702 (probably damaged by ice and wrecked in winter 1702/1703)

Frigates of the Baltic Fleet (1703–1852)

"Sias‘skii"-class (2 units)

*"fan Sas № 1" 18 (1702) - Converted to fire-ship and renaned "Etna" 1705
*"fan Sas № 2" 18 (1702) - Converted to fire-ship and renamed "Vezuvii" 1705
*"Shtandart" 28 (1703) - Classified as 28-gun ship until 1710, BU 1730, Exact replica launched 1999
*"Sviatoi Ilya" 26 (1703, A) - Wrecked at the Baltic Sea 1712

"Shlissel‘burg"-class (7 units)

*"Shlissel‘burg" 28/24 (1704) - Classified as 28-gun ship until 1710, BU after 1710
*"Kronshlot" 28/24 (1704) - Classified as 28-gun ship until 1710, BU after 1710
*"Peterburg" 28/24 (1704) - Classified as 28-gun ship until 1710, BU after 1710
*"Triumph" 28/24 (1704) - Classified as 28-gun ship until 1710, converted to fire-ship 1710
*"Derpt" 28/24 (1704) - Classified as 28-gun ship until 1710, converted to fire-ship 1710
*"Narva" 28/24 (1704) - Classified as 28-gun ship until 1710, BU after 1710
*"Fligel‘-de-Fam" 28/24 (1704) - Classified as 28-gun ship until 1710, flagship of vice-admiral Cornelius Cruys at the Kronstadt defence 1705 during the Great Northern War, converted to fire-ship 1710

"Mikhail Arkhangel"-class (2 units)

*"Mikhail Arkhangel" 28 (1704) - Classified as 28-gun ship until 1710, BU after 1710
*"Ivan-gorod" 28 (1705) - Classified as 28-gun ship until 1710, BU after 1710
*anonymous - BU on slip 1705
*"Olifant" 32/26 (1705) - Classified as 32-gun ship until 1710, BU 1712
*"Dumkrat" 32/26 (1707) - Classified as 32-gun ship until 1710, BU 1713

"Sviatoi Piotr"-class (2 units)

*"Sviatoi Piotr" 32 (1710, A) - BU 1719
*"Sviatoi Pavel" 32 (1710, A) - BU in Copenhagen 1716
*"Samson" 32 (1711, Dutch-built for Russia) - Visited Britain 1715, hulked 1733, BU after 1739
*"Sviatoi Yakov" 32/22 (ex-Dutch ?) - Purchased in Holland 1711, BU after 1732
*"Esperans" 44 (ex-Dutch 50-gun ship "Hardenbroek", captured by France in 1706 and renamed "Esperance") - Purchased in France 1712, visited France 1726–1727, BU after 1739
*"Sviatoi Nikolai" 42/50 (ex-Dutch ?) - Purchased in Holland 1712, converted to transport 1716
*"Lansdou" 32 (ex-French, ex-Britain "HMS Norris") - Purchased in Britain 1713, BU 1725
*"Richmond" 44 (ex-British "HMS Swiftsure") - Purchased 1714 in Britain, BU 1721
*"Sviatoi Ilya" 32 (1714) - Armed by flame throwers 1717, BU 1721
*"Amsterdam-Galey" 32 (1720, Dutch-built for Russia) - Visited Spain 1725–1726, wrecked 1740 near Greifswalder Oie Island 1740
*"Dekrondelivde" (also "De kroon de liefde") 32 (1720, Dutch-built for Russia) - Visited Spain 1725–1726, last mentioned 1743
*"Endracht" 32 (1720, Dutch-built for Russia) - Captured by Sweden during the route to Russia in 1720, further fate unknown

"Kreyser"-class (3 units)

*"Kreyser" 32 (1723) - BU 1732
*"Yacht-hound" 32 (1724) - BU 1736
*"Wind-hound" 32 (1724) - BU 1736
*"Rossia" 32 (1728) - BU 1752
*"Vakhmeister" 46 (1732) - Last mentioned 1742
*"Mitau" 32 (1733) - Captured by France in 1734 during the War of the Polish Succession, released 1734, BU 1747
*"Printsessa Anna" 12 (1733) - Renamed "Sviatoi Yakov" 1745, BU after 1755

"Gektor"-class (16 units)

*"Gektor" 32 (1736, A) - Wrecked 1742
*"Voin" 32 (1737, A) - BU 1755
*"Kavaler" 32 (1737, A) - BU 1755
*"Merkurius" 32 (1740, A) - Wrecked in Kattegat 1743
*"Apollon" 32 (1740, A) - BU 1756
*"Selafail" 32 (1746, A) - BU 1760
*"Yagudiil" 32 (1746, A) - BU 1760
*"Arkhangel Mikhail" 32 (1748, A) - Wrecked 1760
*"Kreyser" 32 (1751, A) - BU 1763
*"Vakhtmeister" 32 (1754, A) - Sunk from leak 1757
*"Rossia" 32 (1754, A) - BU 1771
*"Sviatoi Mikhail" 32 (1758, A) - BU 1771
*"Sviatoi Sergii" 32 (1761, A) - BU 1771
*"Gremiaschii" 32 (1763, A) - Converted to harbour vessel 1778
*"Nadezhda" 32 (1763, A) - Served at the Aegean Sea 1769–1775, converted to transpoet vessel 1780
*"Afrika" 32 (1768, A) - Served at the Aegean Sea 1769–1775, BU 1790
*"Sviatoi Fiodor" 32 (1762, A) - BU 1774
*"Vestovoi" 8 (Purchased and converted to frigate 1763–1764) - BU after 1776
*"Nadezhda Blagopoluchiya" 34 (1764) - Built for the voyage to the Mediterranean Sea, served there in 1764 and 1769–1775, BU in Naoussa 1775
*"Sviatoi Aleksandr" 8 (1766) - Last mentioned 1775
*"Vtoraya Ekaterina" 20 (ex-yacht, c. 1763, converted to frigate 1773) - Converted to harbour vessel 1777, BU 1782
*"Pochtalyon" 20/24 9 (ex-packet boat, 1766, converted to frigate 1775) - Served at the Aegean Sea 1769–1775, transferred to the Azov Flotilla in 1775 and to the Black Sea Fleet in 1783, renamed "Nikita Muchenik" 1788, converted to bombard ship 1788, BU after 1791
*"Severnyi Oriol" (ex-British ?, 1752) - Purchased in Britain 1770, served at the Aegean Sea in 1770–1775 and in 1776–1779, converted to transport 1780, BU 1790
*"Grigorii" - Purchased in Archipelago 1770, served at the Aegean Sea in 1771–1774 and in 1776–1779, visited Spain 1782, BU after 1786
*"Paros" 10 - Purchased in Archipelago 1770, served at the Aegean Sea 17701–1775, BU 190
*"Pobeda" 10 - Purchased in Archipelago 1770, served at the Aegean Sea 1771–1775, wrecked at the Crimea coast 1775
*"Sviatoi Nikolai" 26 (ex-Greek, voluntary joined to the Russian Archipelago Squadron of count Alexey Orlov and commissioned 1770) - Served at the Aegean Sea in 1770–1775, bombed Beirut 1773, transferred to the Azov Flotilla 1775, visited France 1781 and 1783, BU after 1788
*"Sviatoi Pavel" 22 - Purchased in Livorno 1770, served at the Aegean Sea in 1770–1775 and Mediterranean Sea in 1775–1779, bombed Turkish Damietta & Beirut in 1772–1773, visited Morocco 1778, BU 1782
*"Slava" 16 - Purchased in Archipelago 1770, served at the Aegean Sea 1770–1775, bombed Beirut 1773, sold in Livorno 1776
*"Fiodor" - Purchased in Archipelago 1770, served at the Aegean Sea 1770–1771, sunk from leak 1771
*"Uliss" - Purchased in Archipelago, served at the Aegean Sea 1771–1775, last mentioned 1774
*"Zapasnyi" - Purchased in Archipelago 1772, served at the Aegean Sea 1772–1775, BU after 1782
*"Konstantsiya" 22 - Purchased in Archipelago 1772, served at the Aegean Sea in 1772–1775 and in 1776–1779, visited Morocco 1778, BU 1787
*"Pomoschnyi" 20 - Purchased in Archipelago 1772, served at the Aegean Sea 1772–1775, BU after 1783
*"Ungaria" 26 (ex-Austrian?, 1766) - Purchased in Livorno 1775, BU 1796
*"Bohemia" 26 (ex-Austrian?, 1768) - Purchased in Livorno 1775, Visited Spain 1782, BU 1796

*"Pavel" 32 (1773, A) - Served at the Mediterranean Sea 1773–1779, BU 1791

"Astafii"-class (16 units)

*"Astafii" 32 (1773, A) - BU 1793
*"Nataliya" 32 (1773, A) - Served at the Mediterranean Sea 1773–1779, wrecked ath the North Sea 1779
*"Liogkii" 32 (1773, A) - visited Spain 1782, BU 1793
*"Stchastlivyi" 32 (1774, A) - BU 1793
*"Sviatoi Mikhail" 32 (1774, A) - Visited Spain 1782, BU 1796
*"Pospeshnyi" 32 (1774, A) - BU 1791
*"Aleksandr" 32 (1778, A) - Visited Portugal 1780, BU 1804
*"Voin" 32 (1778, A) - Visited Italy 1781-82, BU 1804
*"Maria" 32 (1778, A) - Visited Italy 1781-82, BU 1804
*"Patrikii" 32 (1779, A) - Visited Italy 1781-84 BU, converted to transport 1801
*"Simion" 32 (1779, A) - Visited Italy 1781-82, BU 1803
*"Nadezhda" 32 (1781, A) - DU 1799
*"Slava" 32 (1781, A) - Visited Italy 1782-84, converted to harbour vessel 1799
*"Vozmislav" 32 (1783, A) - Wrecked 1788
*"Podrazhislav" 32 (1783, A) - Last mentioned 1796
*"Nadezhda Blagopoluchiya" 32 (1786, A) - Last mentioned 1798
*"Gektor" 26 (1781) - Captured by Sweden in 1788 at the very beginning of Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) (her captain know nothing about the hostile intentions of Swedes), further fate unknown (probably non commissioned)
*"Mstislavets" 44 (1784, A) - Last mentioned 1794
*"Yaroslavets" 35 (1784, A) - Captured by Sweden in 1788 at the very beginning of Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) (her captain know nothing about the hostile intentions of Swedes), renamed "Jarrislawitz", re-captured by Russia at the Battle of Vyborg Bay (1790), BU 1799
*"Riga" 16 (1784) - BU 1791
*"Premislav" 36 (1785, A) - Last mentioned 1793

"Briachislav"-class (8 units)

*"Briachislav" 44/38 (1785, A) - Served at the North Sea 1793, BU 1804
*"Arkhangel Gavriil" 44/38 (1787, A) - BU after 1799
*"Pomoschnyi" 44/38 (1788, A) - Served at the North Sea 1793, BU after 1799
*"Kronstadt" 44/38 (1789, A) - Visited Britain 1795–1796, BU after 1800
*"Arkhipelag" 44/38 (1789, A) - Served at the North Sea 1793, visited Britain 1795–1797, BU 1809
*"Narva" 44/38 (1790, A) - Visited Britain in 1794,1795–1797 & 1798–1799, BU 1815
*"Revel‘" 44/38 (1790, A) - Visited Britain in 1795–1796, BU after 1805
*"Riga" 44/38 (1790, A) - Visited Britain in 1795–1797 & 1798–1800, BU 1811

"Arkhangel Mikhail"-class (3 units)

Built according to drawings of ex-Swedish frigate "Venus", which had designed by F. af Chapman
*"Arkhangel Mikhail" 44 (1791, A) - Served at the North Sea 1793, visited Britain 1795–1796, wrecked 1796
*"Rafail" 44 (1791, A) - Visited Britain 1795–1796 & 1799–1800 BU 1804
*"Stchastlivyi" 44 (1798, A) - Visited Britain 1798–1800, hulked 1810, BU after 1813
*anonymous - BU on slip 1795
*"Emmanuil" 40 (1797) - BU 1825
*"Emprenabl‘" 16 (1797, court in Gatchina) - BU c. 1800
*"Pospeshnyi" 36/38 (1798, A) - Served at the Mediterranean Sea 1798–1800, transferred to the Black Sea Fleet 1800, BU after 1809
*"Kil‘duin" 32 (1798, A; ex- 24-gun transport, converted to 32-gun frigate 1805) - Served at the Adriatic Sea 1805–1807, interned by Britain 1808, released and sold to Britain 1813

"Tikhvenskaya Bogoroditsa"-class (2 units)

Built according to improved drawings of ex-Swedish frigate "Venus", which had designed by F. af Chapman
*"Tikhvenskaya Bogoroditsa" 44 (1799, A) - Visited Britain 1799–1800, served at the North Sea 1804, BU 1819
*"Feodosii Totemskii" 44 (1799, A) - Visited Britain 1799–1800, BU 1819

"Speshnyi"-class (34 units)

*"Speshnyi" 44/50 (1801, A) - Was the fastest frigate of the contemporary Baltic Fleet, captured by Britain at the Portsmouth harbour in 1807 because her captain was not informed of the beginning of Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812)
*"Argus" 44/50 (1807, A) - Wrecked 1808
*"Bystryi" 44/50 (1807, A) - BU 1827
*"Merkurii" 44 (1815) - Visited Britain 1816, sold to Spain 1818, renamed "Mercurio", further fate unknown
*"Patrikii" 44 (1816, A) - Sold to Spain 1818, renamed "Maria Isabel", further fate unknown
*"Liogkii" 44 (1816) - Sold to Spain 1818, renamed "Ligeria", further fate unknown
*"Patrikii" 44 (1819, A) - BU 1827
*"Merkurii" 44 (1820, A) - Visited Britain 1827, BU 1829
*"Provornyi" 44 (1820) - Visited France 1824, served at the Mediterranean Sea 1827–1828, BU 1831
*"Vestovoi" 44 (1822, A) - Wrecked 1827
*"Konstantin" 44/48 (1824, A) - Visited Britain 1826, served at the Mediterranean Sea 1827–1830, BU 1848
*"Aleksandra" 44/54 (1826, A) - Served at the Aegean Sea 1828–1830, BU 1845
*"Maria" 44/54 (1827, A) - Served at the Aegean Sea 1828–1830, hulked as depot 1847
*"Ol‘ga" 44/54 (1827, A) - Served at the Aegean Sea 1828–1830, U 1849
*"Kniaginia Lovitch" 44/54 (1828) - Served at the Aegean Sea 1828–1833, flagship of rear admiral Pyotr Rikord during the Civil conflict in Greece (1831–1833), transferred to the Black Sea Fleet 1833, hulked 1837
*"Elisaveta" 44/63 (1828) - Served at the Aegean Sea 1829–1831, hulked as depot 1838
*"Ekaterina" 44/56 (1828) - BU 1854
*"Anna" 44/54 (1829) - Served at the Aegean Sea 1831–1833, transferred to the Black Sea Fleet 1833, hulked 1838
*"Prints Oranskii" 44/54 (1829) - Renamed "Korol‘ Niderlandskii" 1841, hulked 1854, BU c. 1858
*"Neva" 44/54 (1829) - Hulked as depot 1837
*"Venus" (ex-"Skoryi" - renamed on slip) 44/64 (1829, A) - Hulked 1852
*"Bellona" 44/54 (1830) - Hulked as depot 1837
*"Yunona" 44/54 (1830) - Hulked as depot 1845
*"Pomona" 44/54 (1830) - BU 1848
*"Tserera" 44/54 (1830) - Hulked 1854, Sold for BU 1859
*"Kastor" 44/52 (1831, A) - Voyaged to the Mediterranean Sea 1856–1857, decommissioned 1863, BU 1865
*"Amfitrida" 44/52 (1832, A) - Scattled to protect Kronstadt harbour 1859
*"Prozerpina" 44/56 (1831) - BU 1855
*"Diana" 44/56 (1832) - Hulked as depot 1850, BU 1854
*"Avrora" 44/56 (1835) - Visited Britain 1844, served ath the Northern Pacific 1853–1857, most strong Russian ship in Petropavlosk during the Petropavlosk Action (1854), decommissioned 1861
*"Mel‘pomena" 44/52 (1836, A) - Last mentioned 1849
*"Tsesarevitch" (ex-"Ekaterina" - renamed on slip) 44/58 (1841) - Hulked as depot 1858
*"Tsesarevna" (ex-"Bellona" - renamed on slip) 44/58 (1841) - BU 1858
*"Konstantin" 44/58 (1844, A) - Visited Britain 1844, BU 1860
*"Liogkii" 38 (1803, A) - Served at the Adriatic Sea 1806–1807, sold to France in Trieste 1809
*"Neva" 28 (1805) - BU 1829
*"Geroi" 48 (1807, A) - Wrecked 1808

"Amfitrida"-class (7 units)

*"Amfitrida" 44 (1807) - Visited France 1810, damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1828
*"Avtroil" 44 (1811) - Sold to Spain 1818, renamed "Astrolabio", further fate unknown
*"Arkhipelag" 44 (1811) - Visited Britain in 1812–1814, France and Netherlands in 1814–1815, damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1828
*"Argus" 44 (1813) - Visited France 1817, damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1828
*"Diana" 44 (1818, A) - Visited Britain 1827, BU 1830
*"Avtroil" 44 (1819) - Hulked as depot 1827
*"Liogkiy" 44 (1819) - Hulked as depot 1827

"Kastor"-class (2 units)

*"Kastor" 36 (1807) - Served at the North Sea 1813, BU 1718
*"Poluks" 36 (1807) - Wrecked 1809 (140 men lost)
*"Venera" 48 (1808) - Reconstruct to 2-deck 56-gun frigate 1810, Visited Britain 1812–1813, BU 1829
*"Sveaborg" 36 (1808) - Served at the North Sea 1813–1814, damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1828
*"Poluks" 32 (1812) - Served at the North Sea 1813, damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1828
*"Rossia" 24 (1814) - First ship of Russian Guards Naval Depot, renamed "Ekateringof" 1827, hulked as depot 1831
*"Neva" 28 (1816) - BU 1830

"Pomona"-class (2 units)

*"Pomona" 24 (1817, A) - BU 1829
*"Pomoschnyi" 24 (1821, A) - Wrecked 1829

"Provornyi"-class (8 units)

*"Provornyi" 36 (1816, A) - Sold to Spain 1818, renamed "Viva", further fate unknown
*"Pospeshnyi" 36 (1816) - Sold to Spain 1818, renamed "Pronta", further fate unknown
*"Gektor" 36 (1817) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1828
*"Kreyser" 36 (1821, A) - Sailed to "Russian America" 1822–1825, visited Britain 1827, BU 1831
*"Aleksandr Nevskii" 36 (1821) - Converted to transport and renamed "Wind-hound" 1825, BU 1829
*"Kastor" 36 (1823) - Served at the Mediterranean Sea 1827–1829, BU 1830
*"Wind-hound" (1823, A) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), decommissioned 1826
*"Elena" 36 (1825, A) - Visited Britain 1826, served at the Mediterranean Sea 1827–1829, hulked 1835
*"Aleksandr Nevskii" 44/62 (ex- 74-gun ship, 1826, cut down as 44-gun frigate 1732) - BU 1847

"Pallada"-class (2 units)

Built according to improved drawings of "HMS President" (1800)
*"Pallada" 44/52 (1832) - Visited Britain 1847 and Portugal 1849–1850, served at the Northern Pacific in 1852–1856, flagship of Japanese diplomatic mission of vice-admiral count Yevfimy Putyatin, scuttled to prevent capture in Emperor's Harbour 1856
*"Diana" 44/52 (1852, A) - Served at the Northern Pacific in 1853–1856 consisting of Japanese diplomatic mission of vice-admiral count Yevfimy Putyatin, wrecked after tsunami in Shimoda Bay 1855
*"Narva" 58 (ex- 74-gun ship, 1846, cut down as frigate 1855) - Decommissioned 1863
*"Borodino" 58 (ex- 74-gun ship, 1850, cut down as frigate 1855) - Decommissioned 1863
*"Vilagosh" 58 (ex- 74-gun ship, 1851, cut down as frigate 1855) - Decommissioned 1863
*"Sysoi Velikii" 58 (ex- 74-gun ship, 1849, cut down as frigate 1855) - Decommissioned 1863

Frigates of the Azov Flotilla (1770–1783) of Catherine the Great

"Pervyi"-class (2 units)

The only two frigates, participated the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) consisting of Azov Flotilla
*"Pervyi" 32 (1771) - Wrecked 1775
*"Vtoroi" 32 (1771) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet 1783, BU 1783

"Tretyi"-class (2 units)

*"Tretiy" 58 (1773) - Burnt 1779
*"Chetvertyi" 58 (1773) - Last mentioned 1778

"Piatyi"-class (3 units)

*"Piatyi" 42 (1774) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet 1783, BU 1785
*"Shestoi" 42 (1774) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet 1783, BU 1785
*"Sed‘moi" 42 (1777) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet and remaned "Kherson" 1783, converted to floating battery and renamed "Vasilii Velikii" 1788, wrecked 1788

"Vos‘moi"-class (9 units)

*"Vos‘moi" 44 (1778) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet and remaned "Ostoroznyi" 1783, BU 1790
*"Deviatyi" 44 (1779) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet and remaned "Pospeshnyi" 1783, decommissioned 1786, BU after 1790
*"Desiatyi" 44 (1779) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet and remaned "Krym" 1783, lost at sea 1787
*"Odinnadtsatyi" 44 (1779) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet and remaned "Khrabryi" 1783, BU after 1788
*"Dvenadtsatyi" 44 (1782) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet and remaned "Strela" 1783, rearmed and renamed as 40-gun frigate "Ioann Voinstvennik" 1788, BU after 1792
*"Trinadtsatyi" 44 (1782) - Transferred to the Black Sea Fleet and remaned "Pobeda" 1783, rearmed and renamed as 40-gun frigate "Matvei Evangelist" 1788, BU after 1791

Frigates of the Black Sea Fleet (1783–1855)

"Vos‘moi"-class (last 3 units)

*"Chetyrnadtsatyi" 44 (1783) - Remaned "Perun" 1783, rearmed and renamed as 40-gun frigate "Amvrosii Mediolanskii" 1788, hulked as depot 1791
*"Piatnadtsatyi" 44 (1783) - Remaned "Liogkii" 1783, rearmed and renamed as 40-gun frigate "Kirill Belozerskii" 1788, converted to floating crane 1791
*"Shestnadtsatyii" 44 (1783) - Remaned "Skoryi" 1783, rearmed and renamed as 40-gun frigate "Fedot Muchenik" 1788, last mentoned 1790
*"Vestnik" 40/32 (ex-merchant vessel, 1781, converted to 40-gun frigate 1783) - Renamed "Arkhangel Gavriil" 1788, BU after 1790
*"Grigorii Bogoslov" (ex-merchant vessel "Boristhen", 1781, converted to frigate 1788) - BU after 1791
*"Ioann Zlatoust" (ex-merchant vessel "Taganrog", converted to frigate 1788) - damaged by ice and sunk in 1788/89
*"Grigorii Velikiya Armenii" 26 (ex-merchant vessel "Pchela", 1782, converted to frigate 1788) - Last mentioned 1791
*"Antonii" (ex-pink "№ 1", 1784, converted to frigate 1788) - Burnt 1791
*"Feodosii" (ex-pink "№ 2", 1784, converted to frigate 1788) - Last mentioned 1788
*"Sergii Chudotvorets" 20 (ex-cutter "№ 1", converted to frigate 1788) - BU after 1802
*"Nikolai Chudotvorets" 20 (ex-cutter "№ 2", convert to frigate 1788) - Last mentioned 1790
*"Sviatoi Georgii Pobedonosets" 50/54 (1785) - Classified as 50-gun ship 1788–1793, BU after 1800
*"Taganrog" 40 (1785) - BU after 1795

"Kinburn"-class (3 units)

*"Kinburn" 40 (1786) - Renamed "Pokrov Sviatoi Bogoroditsy" 1788, hulked 1790
*"Berislav" 40 (1786) - Renamed "Luka Evangelist" 1788, BU 1790
*"Fanagoriya" 40 (1786) - Renamed "Prepodobnyi Nestor" 1788, BU after 1795

"Apostol Andrei"-class (2 units)

50-gun battlefrigates, 2-deckers
*"Apostol Andrei" 50 (1786) - Classified as 50-gun ship 1789–1793, converted to floating crane 1800
*"Aleksandr Nevskii" 50 (1787) - Classified as 50-gun ship 1789–1793, flagship of rear admiral count Nikolai Mordvinov in 1787 and rear admiral Fyodor Ushakov in 1790 during the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792), voyaged to the Adriatic Sea 1799, last mentioned 1799

"Piotr Apostol"-class (6 units)

46-gun battlefrigates
*"Piotr Apostol" 46/44 (1788) - Classified as 46-gun ship 1789–1793, BU after 1799
*"Ioann Bogoslov" 46/44 (1788) - Classified as 46-gun ship 1789–1793, burnt 1794
*"Tsar‘ Konstantin" 46/44 (1788) - Classified as 46-gun ship 1789–1793, wrecked 1799 (399 men lost including rear admiral I. T. Ovtsyn)
*"Fiodor Stratilat" 46/44 (1790) - Classified as 46-gun ship until 1793, wrecked 1799 (268 men lost)
*"Soshestviye Sviatogo Dukha" (ex-"Sviataya Troitsa" - renamed on slip) 46/44 (1791) - Classified as 46-gun ship until 1793, served at the Adriatic Sea 1798–1802, last mentioned 1802
*"Kazanskaya Bogoroditsa" 46/44 (1791) - Classified as 46-gun ship until 1793, served at the Adriatic Sea 1798–1802, last mentioned 1802
*"Nikolai Belomorskii" 20 - ex-Xebec, purchased in Eastern Miditerranean 1789, served in Aegean Sea 1789–1792, transferred to the Black Sea Fleet 1792, voyaged to the Adriatic Sea 1801 and 1804, BU after 1808
*"Sviatoi Matvei" 16 - ex-privateer corvette of Lambros Katsonis Flotilla on Russian service, served at the Aegean Sea 1790–1792, commissioned to the Black Sea Fleet as 16-gun frigate 1792, BU 1804
*"Navarkhia" (also "Vozneseniye Gospodne") 46/40 (1790) - Classified as 46-gun ship until 1793, served at the Adriatic Sea 1798–1802, last mentioned 1802
*"Sviatoi Nikolai" 44/46/50 (1790) - Classified as 46-gun ship until 1793, served at the Adriatic Sea 1798–1802, sold for BU in Naples 1802
*"Grigorii Velikiya Armenii" 60 (1791) - Served at the Adriatic Sea 1798–1803, converted to hospital vesel in Corfu 1805, sold to France in Corfu 1809
*"Ioann Zlatoust" 32 (1791) - Voyaged to the Adriatic Sea in 1800 & 1804, last mentioned 1815
*"Pospeshnyi" 32 (1793) - Voyaged to the Adriatic Sea 1799–1800, wrecked near Bosporus 1800
*"Stchastlivyi" 36 (1793) - Served at the Adriatic Sea 1798–1800, BU 1805
*"Liogkii" 26 (1793) - Voyaged to the Adriatic Sea 1800, BU 1804
*"Mikhail" 50/48 (1796) - Served at the Adriatic Sea 1798–1803 & 1804–1807, flagship of captain A. Sorokin in 1799, sold to France in Trieste 1809
*"Nazaret" 44 (1800) - Served at the Adriatic Sea in 1802–1803 & 1805–1806, BU after 1813
*"Krepkii" 54 (1801) - Served at the Adriatic Sea 1804–1806, BU after 1812
*"Liliya" (1806) - Last mentioned 1821

"Voin"-class (2 units)

*"Voin" 32 (1804) - Last mentioned 1821
*"Afrika" 32 (1811) - Last mentioned 1811
*"Minerva" 44 (1811) - Converted to harbour vessel 1825

"Vezul"-class (2 units)

*"Vezul" 32 (1813) - Wrecked 1817
*"Speshnyi" 32 (1813) - BU 1830
*"Evstafii" 44/48 (1817) - Last mentioned 1829
*"Flora" 44/48 (1818) - BU after 1835
*"Pospeshnyi" 44/52 (1821) - BU 1839
*"Shtandart" 44/60 (1824) - Visited Egypt 1832, Hulked as depot 1841
*"Rafail" 36/44 (1828) - Captured by Turkey in 1829 during the Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829) (this reason shipname "Rafail" was prohibited to use in the Russian Navy in future), renamed "Fazlullah", destroyed by Russian ships at the Battle of Sinop 1853

"Tenedos"-class (6 units)

According to their designer, admiral Alexey Greig, this frigates only by a negligible margin inferiored to 74-gun ships of the line
*"Tenedos" 60 (1828) - Hulked 1842
*"Erivan‘" 60 (1829) - Hulked 1837
*"Arkhipelag" 60 (1829) - Hulked 1838
*"Varna" 60 (1830) - Wrecked 1838
*"Enos" 60 (1831) - Hulked 1845
*"Burgas" 60 (1832) - Hulked 1842
*"Agatopol‘" 60 (1834) - BU 1853
*"Brailov" 44/46 (1836) - BU 1851
*"Flora" 44 (1839) - Won an action with 3 Turkish steamers (1853), scuttled to protect the harbour in 1854 during the Siege of Sevastopol
*"Mesemvriya" 60 (1840) - Scuttled to protect the harbour in 1855 during the Siege of Sevastopol
*"Sizopol‘" 60/54 (1841) - Scuttled to protect the harbour in 1854 during the Siege of Sevastopol
*"Midiya" 60 (1843) - Scuttled to protect the harbour in 1855 during the Siege of Sevastopol
*"Kagul" 44 (1843) - Converted to hospital ship 1854, scuttled to protect the harbour in 1855 during the Siege of Sevastopol
*"Kovarna" 52 (1845) - Destroyed by coastal artillery fire during the Siege of Sevastopol 1855
*"Kulevtchi" 60 (1847) - Scuttled in Sevastopol in 1855, when Russian troops abandoned the city

Frigates of the Caspian Flotilla

"№ 1"-class (3 units)

*"№ 1" 20 (1779) - BU 1789
*"№ 2" 20 (1779) - BU 1786
*"№ 3" 20 (1780) - BU 1787

"Kavkaz"-class (5 units)

*"Kavkaz" 20 (1784) - Bombed Baku in 1791, BU 1797
*"Astrakhan‘" 20 (1784) - BU 1798
*"Kizliar" 20 (1785) - Last mentioned 1785
*"№ 1" 20 (1798) - Bombed Baku to protect Russian merchantmen in 1799, flagship of lieutenant commander Egor Veselago during the Russo-Persian War (1803-1813), BU 1810
*"№ 2" 20 (1798) - BU 1809
*"Tsaritsyn" 12 (1795) (rowing) - BU 1808

Rowing frigates

This type of sailing & rowing vessels was meant to actions in the skerries of Gulf of Finland. Except of first pair, belonged to the Baltic Rowing (Army) Fleet.

"Evangelist Mark"-class (2 units)

*"Evangelist Mark" 20/22 (1773) - BU 1794
*"Provornyi" 20/22 (1781) - BU 1789

"Ekaterina"-class (18 units)

*"Ekaterina" 38 (1790) - Burnt to prevent capture at the 2nd Battle of Rochensalm (1790), probably repaired by Swedes and commissioned as "Katarina", further future is unknown
*"Aleksandr" 38 (1790) - Lost at the 2nd Battle of Rochensalm (1790), probably repaired by Swedes and commissioned as "Alexander", further future is unknown
*"Aleksandra" 38 (1790) - BU 1804
*"Elena" 38 (1790) - BU 1802
*"Konstantin" 38 (1790) - Lost at the 2nd Battle of Rochensalm (1790), probably repaired by Swedes and commissioned as "Konstantin", further future is unknown
*"Maria" 38 (1790) - Captured by Sweden at the 2nd Battle of Rochensalm (1790), overthrew a few hours after
*"Nikolai" 38 (1790) - Sank at the 2nd Battle of Rochensalm (1790), found by divers 1948
*"Pavel" 38 (1790) - BU 1804
*"Aleksandr" 38 (1792) - BU 1804
*"Ekaterina" 38 (1792) - BU 1804
*"Elizaveta" 38 (1794) - BU 1803
*"Maria" 38 (1794) - Wrecked 1796
*"Konstantin" 38 (1796) - Visited Britain 1799–1800, BU 1808
*"Nikolai" 38 (1796) - Visited Britain 1799–1800, BU 1809
*"Bogoyavleniye Gospodne" 38 (1798) - Withstood an action with two Swedish frigates near Vasa 1809, hulked 1810, BU 1816
*"Emmanuil" 38 (1796) - Transferred to the Baltic (Sail) Fleet as 24-gun frigate 1804, BU 1817
*"Vifleem" 38 - BU on slip 1799
*"Nazaret' 38 - BU on slip 1799

"Petergof"-class gemams (6 units)

"Gemam" — is Russian pronunciation of [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemmema-klassen Hemmema] — original Swedish-design ship for skerries (designed by Fredrik Henrik af Chapman). A kind of rowing frigate.
*"Petergof" 32 (1808) - BU 1822
*"Bodryi" 32 (1808) - Damaged during flood in Kronstadt (1824), BU 1829
*"Neva" 32 (1808) - BU 1829
*"Sveaborg" 32 (1808) - BU 1822
*"Torneo" 32 (1808) - BU 1824
*"Mirnyi" 32 (1823) - BU after 1834

Training frigates

Built special for naval training. Belonged to the [http://www.spbvmi.ru/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 Sea Cadet Corps'] Squadron.
*"Nadezhda" 10 (1766) (25 cadets) - BU 1774

"Malyi"-class (6 units)

*"Malyi" 24 (1805) (95 cadets) - BU after 1820
*"Urania" 24 (1820) (95 cadets) - BU 1838
*"Rossia" 24 (1825) (95 cadets) - BU 1842
*"Nadezhda" 24 (1828) (95 cadets) - BU 1845
*"Otvazhnost‘" 24 (1834) (95 cadets) - BU after 1858
*"Postoyanstvo" 24 (1834) (95 cadets) - BU after 1858

"Vernost‘"-class (3 units)

*"Vernost‘" 24 (1834) (75 cadets) - Hulked as floating barracks 1854, BU 1858
*"Uspekh" 24 (1839) (75 cadets) - BU 1855
*"Nadezhda" 24 (1845) (75 cadets) - BU after 1858

Russian trophies (frigates)

*"Karlskron-Vapen" 34 (ex-Swedish "Karlskrona Vapen", 1703, captured at the Battle of Osel Island 1719) - BU 1737
*"Venker" 30 (ex-Swedish "von Coeur" commissioned 1720, captured at the Battle of Grengam 1720) - Non commissioned and kept as memory-ship, BU 1738
*"Dansk-Ern" 18/24 (ex-Danish "Svarta Örn", 1715, captured by Sweden in 1717 and renamed "Danska Örn", captured by Russians at the Battle of Grengam 1720) - Memory-ship 1728, BU after 1737
*"Kisken" 22/32 (ex-Swedish "Kiskin" 1715, captured at the Battle of Grengam 1720)) - BU 1738
*"Stor-Feniks" 34/32 (ex-Swedish "Stora Fenix II", 1708, captured at the Battle of Grengam 1720)) - BU after 1738
*"Brilyant" 30 (ex-French "Brillant", ?, captured during the Siege of Danzig (1734)) - BU after 1746
*"Ul‘riksdal‘" 24 (ex-Swedish "Ulriksdal", 1738, heavily damaged in storm and captured near Reval in 1742 during the Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743)) - BU after 1773
*"Arkhipelag" 30 (ex-Turkish vessel ?, captured in Aegean Sea 1770, converted to Baltic Fleet's frigate) - Served at the Aegean Sea 1770–1775, transferred to the Azov Flotilla 1775, converted to transport vessel 1782, wrecked 1782
*"Delos" (ex-Turkish vessel ?, captured in Aegean Sea 1770, converted to Baltic Fleet's frigate) - Served at the Aegean Sea 1770–1775, sold for BU in Naoussa 1775
*"Zea" (ex-Turkish vessel ?, captured in Aegean Sea 1770, converted to Baltic Fleet's frigate) - BU in Naoussa 1772
*"Milo" (ex-Turkish vessel ?, captured in Aegean Sea 1770, converted to Baltic Fleet's frigate) - BU in Naoussa 1772
*"Naktsiya" 22 (ex-Turkish vessel ?, captured in Aegean Sea 1770, converted to Baltic Fleet's frigate) - Served at the Aegean Sea 1770–1775, sold for BU in Naoussa 1775
*"Tino" (ex-Turkish vessel ?, captured in Aegean Sea 1770, converted to Baltic Fleet's frigate) - Served at the Aegean Sea 1770–1775, transferred to the Azov Flotilla 1775, last mentioned 1775
*"Andro" (ex-Turkish vessel ?, captured in Aegean Sea 1771, converted to Baltic Fleet's frigate) - BU in Naoussa 1772
*"Mikono" (ex-Turkish vessel ?, captured in Aegean Sea 1771, converted to Baltic Fleet's frigate) - BU in Naoussa 1772
*"Minerva" 32 (ex-Turkish vessel ?, captured in Aegean Sea 1771, converted to Baltic Fleet's frigate) - Served at the Aegean Sea 1771–1774, wrecked at the Baltic Sea 1774
*"Santorin" (ex-Turkish vessel ?, captured in Aegean Sea 1771, converted to Baltic Fleet's frigate) - Wrecked in Mytilene harbour and burnt to protect the capture 1771
*"Sviatoi Mark" (ex-Turkish galley "Makroplea", captured at the Dnepr Liman in 1788, converted to frigate) - BU after 1800
*"Avtroil" 24 (ex-Swedish "af Trolle" 1767, captured at the First Battle of Rochensalm (1789)) - Flagship of vice-admiral T. Kozlianonov in the Battle of Vyborg Bay and 2nd Battle of Rochensalm (1790) (2nd flag), served at the Adriatic Sea 1805–1807, sold to France in Venice 1809
*"Oden" 38/28-gun [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemmema-klassen Gemam] (ex-Swedish "Oden", 1764, captured at the First Battle of Rochensalm (1789), classified as [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udema-klassen Udema] ) - Captured by Sweden at the 2nd Battle of Rochensalm (1790), re-captured by Russia in Sveaborg (1808) and as half-gemam "Oduen" commissioned to the Baltic Rowing Fleet, last mentioned 1808
*"Venus" (ex-Swedish "Venus", 1783, captured in Oslofjord in 1789 during the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790)) - Distinguished oneself in Battle of Vyborg Bay under the command of captain Roman Crown, visited Holland 1793, visited Britain in 1793, 1795–1797 & 1799–1800, served at the Adriatic Sea in 1805–1807 and at the Aegean Sea in 1807, sold to Kingdom of Naples in Palermo to prevent capture 1807
*"la Brune" (ex-French, ?, captured during Corfu assault (1799) by admiral Fyodor Ushakov's Russo-Turkish Squadron) - Delivered to Turkey, further fate is unknown
*"Gel‘gomar" 26-gun [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemmema-klassen Gemam] (ex-Swedish "Hjalmar", 1790, captured in Sveaborg 1808, commissioned to Baltic Rowing Fleet) - BU 1829
*"Stor-Biorn" 26-gun [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemmema-klassen Gemam] (ex-Swedish " Styrbjörn", 1790, captured in Sveaborg 1808, commissioned to Baltic Rowing Fleet) - Flagship of lieutenant commander Ivan Novokshenov at the Battle of Jungfrusund (1808) during the Russo-Swedish War (1808–1809), hulked as floating barracks
*"Magubei-Subhan" (ex-Turkish "Mahubey Subham", captured near Penderaklia in 1811 during the Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)) - BU after 1818

References

*Veselago F. F. Spisok russkikh voyennykh sudov s 1668 po 1860 god. - Tipographia Morskogo Vedomstva, St. Peterburg, 1872 (List of Russian naval ships from 1668 to 1860)
*Chernyshev A. A. Rossiyskiy parusnyi flot. Spravochnik. T. I. - Voyenizdat, Moskva, 1997 ( [http://sailing.shipmodelsbay.com/00/02/02/index.html Russian Sailing Fleet. Referebce-book] )
*Boyevaya letopis‘ russkogo flota. Khronika vazhneishikh sobytii voyennoi istorii russkogo flota s IX veka po 1917 god. - Voyenizdat, Moskva, 1948. ( [http://militera.lib.ru/h/boevaya_letopis_flota/index.html Combat Annales of the Russian Navy] . Chronicle of the Most Important Events of the Russian Navy History from IX century up to 1917)
*Mitrofanov V. P., Mitrofanov P. S. Shkoly pod parusami. Uchebnyi parusnyi flot XVIII–XX vekov. - Sudostroyeniye, Leningrad, 1989. (Schools under the Sail. Training Sail Fleet in XVIII–XX cc.)