Russian warship Nadezhda

The Nadezhda (Russian Надежда ) was a 450 -ton commercial frigate, which was bought in 1803 by participants of the first Russian circumnavigation under Adam Johann von Krusenstern in London. From Krusenstern chose it as a flagship for the Langer's circumnavigation. The ship was a three-masted full-rigged ship. Supposed Year was in 1800.

Circumnavigation

On the orders of Tsar Alexander I to the circumnavigation of the globe, the ship left its output port Kronstadt, along with its sister ship Neva on August 7, 1803. Started the journey to Copenhagen, where the scientist Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius of Tilenau and Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff on board went. Further stations were Tenerife and Santa Catarina on the Brazilian coast (now Florianópolis ). The Nadezhda sailed around Cape Horn on March 3, 1804 made ​​a stopover in the Marquesas Islands ( the former Washington Islands), Hawaii and the Kamchatka Peninsula. On the crossing to Japan, she survived the end of September 1804, only slightly damaged a typhoon. Then she lay for a long time on the coast before Nagasaki. The ship served the exploration and mapping of Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands, Japan and the China Sea. The return journey was via the Sunda Strait and the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena to Kronstadt, where on August 19, 1806 hardly damaged and Nadezhda with almost complete crew broke in again into the harbor.