Mirny (sloop-of-war)

Mirny and its Captain Mikhail Lazarev on a commemorative coin of the Bank of Russia
History
Russian Empire
NameMirny
NamesakePeaceful
Builder
Laid down1818
Launched1819
ChristenedLadoga
Maiden voyage1819
RenamedMirny
HomeportKronshtadt
General characteristics
Type24-gun sloop-of-war
Displacement530 tonnes[1]
Length36.6 m (120.1 ft)[1]
Beam9.15 m (30.0 ft) [1]
Depth of hold4.6 m (15.1 ft)[1]
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Speed10 kn (19 km/h)[1]
Complement72[1]
Armament

Mirny (Russian: Ми́рный, literally "Peaceful") was a 20-gun sloop-of-war of the Imperial Russian Navy, the second ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1819–1821, during which Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (commander of the lead ship Vostok) and Mikhail Lazarev (commanding Mirny) circumnavigated the globe, discovered the continent of Antarctica and twice circumnavigated it, and discovered a number of islands and archipelagos in the Southern Ocean and the Pacific.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Шлюп "Мирный" at sailhistory.ru (in Russian)