Svyatoi Pawel (1791)
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| Ship data | ||
| Surname: | Swjatoi Pawel (German = Saint Paul) | |
| Keel laying : | November 20, 1791 | |
| Launching ( ship christening ): | August 9, 1794 | |
| Builder: | Nikolayev | |
| Shipbuilder: | Afanassiev, Sokolov | |
| Fate: | 1804 still in service, until 1810 residential ship | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Type: | Battery ship | |
| Drive: | three-mast standard rigging | |
| Armament: | 84 guns | |
| Length: | 54 m | |
| Width: | 15 m | |
| Draft: | 6.8 m | |
| Sail area: | 4400 m² | |
The Swjatoi Pawel ( Russian Святой Павел , Saint Paul ) was a ship of the line of the Imperial Russian Navy .
history
In addition to the ship described here, which was fitted with 84 cannons and used in the Black Sea Fleet from 1791–1804 , there were other ships of the same name:
- 1743–1756, Baltic fleet , 80 guns
- 1755–1769, Baltic fleet, 80 guns
- 1784–1792, Black Sea Fleet, 66 cannons, see Swjatoi Pawel (1784)
The biography of the latter vehicle and the one described here have been regularly mixed up in the literature.
The Swjatoi Pawel was the first to be built at the Mykolaiv shipyard . This city was conquered by Catherine II in 1789 and founded as a base for the Black Sea Fleet with Admiralty.
During the wars against Napoleon , the Swjatoi Pawel was deployed in the Mediterranean and participated in the liberation of Malta and Corfu . During this time she was the flagship of Admiral Fyodor Fyodorowitsch Ushakow .
literature
- Wolf-Dietrich Wagner: The frigates "Peter and Paul" and "Saint Paul" . Delius, Klasing et al. Co., Bielefeld 1966 (plans only refer to the ship described here).
- Shipping and art from Russia . Art Maritim '95, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-87700-097-5 .