St PAUL or SVIATOI PAVEL was built by the shipwrights M. Rugachev and A.I.Kuzmin for the Imperial Russian Navy at Okhotsk.
02 July 1740 launched as the SVIATOI PAVEL a sister of the ST PETER.
Tonnage approx. 200 tons, dim. 24.4 x 6.7 x 2.9m.
Armament 14 guns.
Crew 75.
1740 completed.
She together with the St PETER participated in the second Kamchatka Expedition.
08 October 1740 sailed from Okhotsk under command of Aleksei Chirikov and wintered in Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka.
04 June 1741 the two ships left from Petropavlovsk for the North Pacific.
20 June 1740 she lost sight of the St PETER due to fog, she surveyed 250 miles of the North America coastline before she returned to Kamchatka, they discovered Unmake, Adah, Agattu and Attu in the Aleutian chain of islands.
10 October 1740 returned in Okhotsk, 9 men of the crew died during the voyage on disease, 15 men lost overboard at Jakobi Island.
23 May 1742 sailed from Okhotsk for a new expedition, but was driven back to Okhotsk by fog and illness and returned back in Okhotsk in August 1742.
The interest of the Imperial Russian Government waned in the North Pacific and the SVIATOI PAVELwas laid up in Okhotsk and the officers returned to St Petersburg.
Fate unknown.
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Source: Russian Warships in the Age of Sail 1696-1860 by Tredrea & Sozan. Various web-sites.