History of the Russian Postal Service and St PETER or SV PYOTR

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History of the Russian Postal Service and St PETER or SV PYOTR

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Jul 31, 2022 9:01 pm

The Soviet Union Post issued a set of five stamps for the “History of the Russian Postal Service, which shows us the means of transport of the mail in Russia. One stamp shows us a packet boat and in the left shows two small boats, which type was known as a “strug” I found two internet sites which give info on the “strug” viewtopic.php?t=18144

Packet boats (from German Pack - bale and Boot - boat, possibly also from the Netherlands. Pakket-boot or English Packet-boat - mail ship) were small two-masted ships designed to carry mail and passengers, as well as to carry a messenger service. They were armed with a small number of small and medium-caliber guns, and therefore they could take part in combat operations. They were also often used as transport in scientific and research expeditions.
As part of the Russian Imperial Navy, ships of this type were used in the 18th - early 19th centuries. They served in the Baltic and Black Sea fleets, Azov , Caspian and Siberian flotillas, also one ship operated as part of the Greek corsair flotilla of Gugliemo Loren.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0 ... ction=edit

By comparing the packet boat on the stamp and drawings of the SAINT PETER (Sv. PYOTR), the ship was designed after this drawing.
"SAINT PETER" - a sailing packet boat , a member of the Second Kamchatka Expedition led by Captain Commander Vitus Bering .
Description of the vessel
"SAINT PETER" (Sv. PYOTR) was a sailing wooden packet boat with a displacement of 200 tons and a carrying capacity of 100 tons, was one of two ships of the same type. The packet boat carried the sailing armament of an brig . The length of the packet boat was 24.4 meters, width - 6.7 meters, and draft - 2.9 meters. The ship was equipped with 14 small-caliber guns: nine 3-pounders and five 2-pounders. The crew of the packet boat consisted of 75 people .
Service history: The packet boat "SAINT PETER" was built at the Okhotsk shipyard and after launching on June 29 ( July 10 ) , 1740 , became part of the Siberian flotilla of Russia . The construction was carried out by the ship master of last ships M. Rugachev and the master of the boat and boat business A. I. Kuzmin .
She took part in the Second Kamchatka Expedition . September 8 ( 19 ), 1740 at the head of a detachment of two courts left Okhotsk and headed for the shores of Kamchatka . On October 6 (27), the detachment entered Avacha Bay , where both ships wintered in the bay, named after them Petropavlovskaya. On June 4 ( 15 ), 1741 , both packet boats entered the Pacific Ocean in order to search for the "Land of Juan da Gama", however, due to heavy fog on June 20 ( July 1) ships lost each other. After several days of fruitless attempts to find the second packet boat, the crew of the St. Peter continued the expedition on their own.
The packet boat headed east and on July 16 (27) reached the coast of North America in the area of Mount St. Elias On July 20 (31) to replenish fresh water, the ship approached Kayak Island, at the same time, adjunct of the Academy of Sciences G. V. Steller landed on the island to study flora and fauna . The next day, the packet boat went to sea and headed for the shores of Kamchatka and on July 27 ( August 7 ) came to Kodiak Island . After that, the expedition discovered the Evdokeevsky Islands and the island of Tumanny .
From August 28 ( September 9 ) to September 6 (17) "SAINT PETER" was in the area of the Shumagin Islands . In the subsequent voyage towards Kamchatka, south of the Aleutian Islands, the islands of St. John , St. Markian and St. Stephen were discovered . During the voyage, by November 4 (15), 12 crew members died of scurvy , fresh water and food supplies had also come to an end by this time. In this regard, on November 5 (16), the packet boat anchored off a small island , subsequently named after the expedition leader , and his crew moved ashore. Due to the lack of a harbor, it was also planned to put the packet boat ashore, but on November 28 ( December 9 ) , 1741 , the rising wind threw the ship ashore and broke it in the place, which was originally intended for wintering .
During wintering on the island, another 19 crew members died of scurvy, and on December 8 (19) the ship's commander, Vitus Bering, died. In 1742, from the wreckage of the ST. PETER packet boat, a gukor of the same name was built , on which the surviving crew members managed to get to the Avacha Bay .Ship commanders
From 1740 to December 8 ( 19 ), 1741 , Captain-Commander Vitus Bering served as the commander of the packet boat "SAINT PETER".

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0 ... %BE%D1%82)

More on these voyages you can find on: http://www.shipsonstamps.org/Topics/html/bering.htm and viewtopic.php?p=12406&hilit=sv+pyotr#p12406
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