Purchased Foreign-built Battleships (for The Baltic Fleet)
These were purchased around 1711-21. Name in brackets indicates place or country of purchase. It is difficult to trace some origins.
- Sviatoi Antonii 50 ("Святой Антоний", Hamburg, ex-Don Antonio di Padua) - Purchased 1711, wrecked 1716
- Randol‘f 50 ("Рандольф", England, ex-British Randolph) - Purchased 1712, BU 1725
- Bulinbruk 52 ("Булинбрук", c. 1702, England, ex-British Sussex) - Captured by Sweden 1714 and returned to Britain
- Oksford 50 ("Оксфорд", c. 1699, England, ex-Tankerfield) - Purchased 1712, sold in England 1717
- Viktoriya 50 ("Виктория", c. 1706, England, ex-French Grand Vainqueur, (ex-French Gaillard)? ex-Dutch Overwinnaer, captured 1708) - Purchased 1712, BU after 1739
- Straford 50 ("Страфорд", c. 1700, England, ex-Wintworth) - Purchased 1712, BU 1732
- Fortuna 50 ("Фортуна", ex-British Fortune) - Purchased 1713, wrecked 1716
- Armont 50 ("Армонт", ex-British) - Purchased 1713, BU 1747
- Arondel‘ 50 ("Арондель", ex-British Arundel) - Purchased 1713, BU 1747
- Perl 50 ("Перл", c. 1706/13, ex-Dutch Groote Perel) - Purchased 1713, BU after 1734
- Leferm 70 ("Леферм", ex-British, purchased 1713, ex-French le Ferme, captured 1702) - Purchased 1713, BU 1737
- London 54 ("Лондон", ex-British) - Purchased 1714, wrecked 1719
- Britaniya 50 ("Британия", ex-British Great Allen) - Purchased 1714, converted to praam 1728
- Portsmut 54 ("Портсмут". 1714, Dutch-built for Russia) - Purchased 1714, flagship of captain Naum Senyavin at the Battle of Osel Island (1719), wrecked 1719
- Devonshir 52 ("Девоншир", 1714, Dutch-built for Russia) - Purchased 1714, BU after 1737
- Marl‘burg 60 ("Марльбург", 1714, Dutch-built for Russia) - Purchased 1714, BU 1747
- Prints Evgenii 50 ("Принц Евгений", 1721, Dutch-built for Russia) - Purchased 1721, BU after 1739
- Nishtadt 56 ("Ништадт", 1721, Dutch-built for Russia, ex-Rotterdam) - Purchased 1721, wrecked 1721
- anonymous 56 (c. 1710, ex-French Beau Parterre, ex-Dutch Schonauwen, captured 1711) - Captured by Sweden and renamed Kronskepp (never commissioned to the Russian Navy, known only by foreign sources)
- Syurireis (=Surrey?) - Sold to Spain 1714 (as Real Macy 60)? (never commissioned to the Russian Navy, known only by foreign unreliable sources)
Read more about this topic: List Of Ships Of The Line Of Russia
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