Mirny (sloop-of-war)

	Mirny and its Captain Mikhail Lazarev on a commemorative coin of the Bank of Russia
History
Russian Empire
Name	Mirny
Namesake	Peaceful
Builder	Mikhail Lazarev (oversaw refit of the original ship Ladoga),; Olonetskaya Shipyards,; Lodeynoye Pole;
Laid down	1818
Launched	1819
Christened	Ladoga
Maiden voyage	1819
Renamed	Mirny
Homeport	Kronshtadt
General characteristics
Type	24-gun sloop-of-war
Displacement	530 tonnes
Length	36.6 m (120.1 ft)
Beam	9.15 m (30.0 ft)
Depth of hold	4.6 m (15.1 ft)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Speed	10 kn (19 km/h)
Complement	72
Armament	6 × 120 mm carronade; 14 × 76 mm pounders;

Mirny (Russian: Ми́рный, literally "Peaceful") was a 20-gun sloop-of-war of the Imperial Russian Navy, the second ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1819–1821, during which Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (commander of the lead ship Vostok) and Mikhail Lazarev (commanding Mirny) circumnavigated the globe, discovered the continent of Antarctica and twice circumnavigated it, and discovered a number of islands and archipelagos in the Southern Ocean and the Pacific.

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