POBEDA Ship-of-the-line 1797

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Built as a wooden ship-of-the-line in Arkhangel’sk by the master shipbuilder G. Inatyev for the Russian Imperial Navy. She was built after plans made by Admiral Greig.
11 September 1795 keel laid down.
26 May 1797 launched as the POBEDA one of the Aziia class, 28 units of this class were built.
Dimensions 160 x 44.4 x 19ft.
Armament: Lower deck 24 – 24 pdrs, upper deck 24 – 12pdrs, quarter deck and forecastle 14 – 6 pdrs.guns
Crew 530.

03 July 1798 sailed from Archangel as a unit of Vice Admiral Tate’s 2nd Division.
08 August 1798 arrived at the Nore, United Kingdom, thereafter cruised in the North Sea,
02 June 1799 sailed from Portsmouth as a unit of Rear Admiral Kartsov’s squadron to join Admiral Ushakov’s squadron in the Mediterranean. During the voyage south from the U.K. she escorted British troopships to Gibraltar.
22 August 1799 joined at Palermo Admiral Ushakoy’s squadron.
24 December 1799 was ordered by Paul I to sail from Messina to Corfu and to bring troops to Malta.
1800 Cruised off Malta and Sicily.
20 October 1800 sailed to Sevastopol in the Black Sea, to join the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
1804 Transported troops to Corfu.
April 1807 when a unit of Rear Admiral Pustoshkin’s squadron underway to Anapa she was storm damaged and had to return to Sevastopol for repairs.
1809 Landed troops at Anapa.
17 August 1810 while part of Rear Admiral Sarychev’s squadron the squadron unsuccessfully pursued the Turkish battle squadron off Varna.
1811 A unit of Vice Admiral Hull’s squadron and cruising between Varna and Bosporus.
1812 Used as a troop transport between Anapa to Sevastopol.
1812 Decommissioned.
1816 After this year broken up.

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Source: Russian Warships in the age of Sail 1696-1860 by John Tredrea and Eduard Sozaen.