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.
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