Russian warship Neva
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] In June 1807, the Neva was the first Russian ship to make contact with Australia.[2]
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,[3] Neva was purchased in London (and renamed) by Lisyansky in 1803 as part of the preparation to circumnavigation.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The first Russian round the world voyage and its influence on exploration and development of Russian America", a thesis by A. Postnikov
- ↑ Massov, Aleksandr (2006), "The visit of the Russian sloop Neva to Sydney in 1807: 200 years of Russian–Australian contacts", Australian Slavonic and East European Studies (St. Lucia, QLD: School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland) 20 (1–2): 203–214, ISSN 0818-8149, http://miskinhill.com.au/journals/asees/20:1-2/russian-sloop-neva
- ↑ Glynn Barratt (1987) "The Russian Discovery of Hawaii: The Ethnographic and Historic Record", ISBN 0915013088:
- "Nadezhda and Neva, as they were now respectively renamed, left England for the Baltic in May 1803, docking at Kronstadt on 5 June"
Several bodies of water in Southeast Alaska are related to "Neva" and her commander Lisianski. Neva Strait is a narrow channel just north of the former Alaskan capital city of Sitka. Lisianski Inlet and Lisianski Strait are two connected channels near Yakobi Island and the fishing village of Pelican, on the northwestern part of Chichigof Island.
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