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BAIKAL

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:54 pm

Built on a private yard at Gelsingfors (Helsinki) as a transport for the Imperial Russian Navy.
September 1847 laid down
05 July 1848 launched as the BAIKAL.
Tonnage 250 tons burden, dim. approximately 28.7 x 7.5 x 5.1m.
Two masted, brig rigged.
Crew 30.

21 August 1848 sailed from Kronhstadt in the Baltic under command of G.I. Nevelskoi with cargo bound for Petropavlovsk where she arrived on 12 May 1849.
During a next voyage she discovered a passage between Sakhalin Island and the continent on 27 June 1849.
Took part in the Okhotsk flotilla base transfer to Petropavlovsk from 1850 till 1852.
Between 1853 till 1857 made cruises in the Sea of Okhotsk.
1858 till 1859 stationed in the mouth of the River Amur.
Before 1861 broken up.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia of 1979 gives for Nevel’skoi, Gennadii Ivanovich
Born Nov. 23 (Dec. 5), 1813, in Drakino, Kostroma Oblast; died Apr. 17 (29), 1876, in St. Petersburg. Russian explorer of the Far East; admiral (1874). Son of a naval officer.
Nevel’skoi graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps in 1832 and from officers’ classes in 1836. In 1848–49, as commanding officer of the transport ship Baikal, he voyaged from Kronstadt to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka and explored and compiled a description of the northern portion of Sakhalin Island, Sakhalin Gulf, and the mouth of the Amur River; he proved that Sakhalin was an island rather than a peninsula and determined the navigability of the Amur for oceangoing vessels. In 1850–55 he led the Amur expedition, which surveyed the lower reaches of the Amur River, Sakhalin Island, and the Tatar Strait. In the summer of 1850 he raised the Russian flag over Nikolaevsk, which he founded as an outpost (now the city of Nikolaevsk-na-Amure); in 1853 he raised the flag in Imperatora Nikolaia Gulf (now Sovetskaia Gavan’) and in the southern part of Sakhalin. A strait (the narrowest part of the Tatar Strait), a gulf, a mountain, and a city on Sakhalin were named after Nevel’skoi. Monuments in his honor have been erected in Vladivostok, Nikolaevsk-na-Amure, Khabarovsk, and Soligalich.
Nevel’skoi’s activities met opposition from the administration in St. Petersburg. In 1856, Nevel’skoi was relieved of his duties and recalled to St. Petersburg, where he was appointed a member of the Scientific Department of the Naval Technical Committee.

Russia 1989 15k sg6093, scott5850c.

Source: Russian Warships in the age of sail 1696 – 1860 by Tredrea and Sozaev..
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