Nadeschda (ship, 1800)
The Nadeschda ( Russian Надежда , German: Hope ) was a 450-ton commercial frigate that was bought in 1803 by participants in the first Russian circumnavigation of the world under Adam Johann von Krusenstern in London. Von Krusenstern chose it as the flagship for the circumnavigation of the world that he directed. The ship was a three-masted - Vollschiff . Probable year of construction was 1800.
Circumnavigation
On the order of Tsar Alexander I to circumnavigate the world, the ship left its port of departure in Kronstadt , together with the sister ship Neva on August 7, 1803. Officers were among others. the brothers Otto and Moritz von Kotzebue . The trip first led to Copenhagen , where the scientists Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau and Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff went on board. Further stations were Tenerife and Santa Catarina on the Brazilian east coast (now Florianópolis ). The Nadeschda sailed around Cape Hornon March 3, 1804, stopped off on the Marquesas Islands (the then Washington Islands), Hawaii and the Kamchatka Peninsula . On the crossing to Japan at the end of September 1804, she survived a typhoon only slightly damaged . After that she was in the roadstead in front of Nagasaki for a long time . The ship was used to explore and map Kamchatka, the Kuriles , Japan and the China Sea . The return journey took place via the Sunda Strait and the Cape of Good Hope as well as St. Helena to Kronstadt, where the Nadezhda was hardly damaged on August 19, 1806 and returned to the port with an almost complete crew.
literature
- Glynn Barratt: The Russian Discovery of Hawai'i: The Ethnographic and Historic Record . 1987, Editions Limited. ISBN 978-0-915013-08-1 .
- Glynn Barratt: The Russians and Australia (Russia and the South Pacific 1696-1840) (B. I) . 1988, University of British Columbia . ISBN 978-0-7748-0291-8
- John Tredrea and Eduard Sozaev: Russian Warships in the Age of Sail, 1696-1860: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates . 2010, Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-058-1