Russian warship Nadezhda

Russian warship Nadezhda

The Russian warship Nadezhda (Russian: Надежда, "hope") was a three-masted sloop-of-war frigate, commonly called "frigate Nadezhda" in Russia.

It was built in London in the spring of 1800 as a 425-ton sloop named HMS Leander, and sold to Russia. It and the sloop-of-war Neva left England for the Baltic in May 1803, docking at Kronstadt on 5 June."^[1] It was renamed to Nadezhda and took part in the first Russian circumnavigation of the world with the Neva under Krusenstern^[2] It had a 58-member crew and 16 guns.^[3]

It was owned by Russian-American Company (RACo). As part of its circumnavigation, it delivered RACo cargo to Kamchatka and the first Russian embassy under Nikolai Rezanov to Japan. ^[3]

In 1808 Nadezhda was chartered by an American merchant D. Martin to transport RACo cargoes from Kronstadt to New York. During the trip, in December it became ice-locked near Denmark and perished.^[3]

The frigate name was the namesake of a gulf and Nadezhda Strait in the Okhotsk Sea, four capes in the Japan Sea and the Tatar Strait, and the Nadezhda Island (Sitka County, Alaska) in the Pacific Ocean.^[3]

See also

• European and American voyages of scientific exploration

Footnotes

1. ^ Barratt (1987).
2. ^ Barratt (1988).
3. ^ ^{a b c d} "Training Sailcraft “Nadezhda” – Historical Background"

References

• Barratt, Glynn (1987). The Russian Discovery of Hawai'I: The Ethnographic and Historic Record. Editions Limited. ISBN 978-0915013081.
• Barratt, Glynn (1988). The Russians and Australia (Russia and the South Pacific 1696-1840) (Vol I). University of British Columbia. ISBN 978-0774802918
• Tredrea, John and Eduard Sozaev. (2010). Russian Warships in the Age of Sail, 1696-1860: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-058-1.