Nadezhda (1802 Russian ship)

For other ships with the same name, see Leander (ship) and Nadezhda (disambiguation).

The sloop Nadezhda
History
Great Britain
NameLeander
NamesakeLeander
OwnerT. Huggins
Launched1799
FateSold 1802
Russian Empire
NameNadezhda
NamesakeRussian: Надежда, "Hope"
OwnerRussian-American Company (RAC)
Acquired1802
FateCrushed by ice December 1808
General characteristics
Tons burthen425, or 429, or 430[1] bm
Complement
  • Leander:45[2]
  • Nadezhda:68
Armament
  • Leander: 22 × 9-pounder guns,[1] or 24 × 18-pounder guns + 2 × 9-pounder carronades[a]
  • Nadezhda: 16 guns

Nadezhda (or Nadeshda, or Nadeshada ) was a three-masted sloop, the ex-British merchantman and slave ship Leander, launched in 1799. A French privateer captured her in 1801, but she quickly came back into British hands. Private Russian parties purchased her in 1802 for the first Russian circumnavigation of the world (1803-1806), and renamed her. Although it is common to see references to the "frigate Nadezhda", she was a sloop, not a frigate, and she was never a warship. After her voyage of exploration she served as a merchant vessel for her owner, the Russian-American Company, and was lost in 1808.

  1. ^ a b Lloyd's Register (1801), №103.
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