Nadezhda (1802 Russian ship)
The sloop Nadezhda | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Great Britain | |
| Name | Leander |
| Namesake | Leander |
| Owner | T. Huggins |
| Launched | 1799 |
| Fate | Sold 1802 |
| Russian Empire | |
| Name | Nadezhda |
| Namesake | Russian: Надежда, "Hope" |
| Owner | Russian-American Company (RAC) |
| Acquired | 1802 |
| Fate | Crushed by ice December 1808 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 425, or 429, or 430 bm |
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Nadezhda (or Nadeshda, or Nadeshada ) was a three-masted sloop, the ex-British merchantman and slave ship Leander, launched in 1799. A French privateer captured her in 1801, but she quickly came back into British hands. Private Russian parties purchased her in 1802 for the first Russian circumnavigation of the world (1803-1806), and renamed her. Although it is common to see references to the "frigate Nadezhda", she was a sloop, not a frigate, and she was never a warship. After her voyage of exploration she served as a merchant vessel for her owner, the Russian-American Company, and was lost in 1808.