Russian warship Neva

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The Russian sloop-of-war Neva visits Australia in 1807.
The Russian sloop-of-war Neva visits Australia in 1807.

Neva was a Russian sloop-of-war, bought in Britain. It was named after the Neva River.

It was the first Russian ship to circumnavigate the globe in 1804 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Yuri Lisyansky.[1]

Neva was a 200-foot-long (61-meter), three-masted sailing ship weighing in around 370 tons (380 metric tonnes). The warship was of English design and construction , carried 14 cannon, and was manned by a crew of 50 professional sailors.[citation needed]

Built in 1802,[2] Neva was purchased in London (and renamed) by Lisyansky in 1803 as part of the preparation to circumnavigation.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "The first Russian round the world voyage and its influence on exploration and development of Russian America", a thesis by A. Postnikov
  2. ^ Glynn Barratt (1987) "The Russian Discovery of Hawaii: The Ethnographic and Historic Record", ISBN 0915013088:
    • "[[Nadezhda (Russian warship )|]] and Neva, as they were now respectively renamed, left England for the Baltic in May 1803, docking at Kronstadt on 5 June"
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