Vostok (sloop-of-war)
Vostok was a 28-gun sloop-of-war of the Imperial Russian Navy, the lead ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1819–1821, during which Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (commander of the ship) and Mikhail Lazarev (commanding Mirny, the second ship) 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.
Vostok and its captain, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen on a commemorative coin of the Bank of Russia, 1994 | |
| History | |
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| Russian Empire | |
| Name | Vostok |
| Namesake | East |
| Builder |
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| Launched | 1818 |
| Homeport | Kronstadt |
| Fate | Broken up in 1828 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | 24-gun sloop-of-war |
| Displacement | 900 tonnes |
| Length | 39.62 m (130.0 ft) |
| Beam | 10.36 m (34.0 ft) |
| Depth of hold | 4.8 m (15.7 ft) |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Speed | 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Complement | 117 |
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