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." It was renamed to Nadezhda and took part in the first Russian circumnavigation of the world with the Neva under Krusenstern It had a 58-member crew and 16 guns.

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.

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.

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.

See also

• European and American voyages of scientific exploration

References

• Barratt, Glynn (1987). The Russian Discovery of Hawai'I: The Ethnographic and Historic Record. Editions Limited. ISBN 978-0-915013-08-1.
• Barratt, Glynn (1988). The Russians and Australia (Russia and the South Pacific 1696-1840) (Vol I). University of British Columbia. ISBN 978-0-7748-0291-8
• 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.