Russian Navy
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Introduction
Contrarily to ships of other contemporary navies, the ships of the Russian Navy were standardized along a unique class for each rate. They were built as per the shipbuilding regulations initially established in 1723 by Peter I the Great.
Personnel
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Ships of the Line
First Rate
Svyatoy Dmitriy Rostovskiy (100)
Zakhariy i Elizavet (100)
Second Rate
| Kir Ioann (80) Svyataya Ekaterina (80) |
Svyatoy Kliment Papa Rimskiy (80) Svyatoy Nikolay (80) |
Third Rate
| Archangel Gavriil (66) Archangel Rafail (66) |
Moskva (66) 1750 Moskva (66) 1760 |
Svyatoy Aleksandr Nevskiy (66) 1749 Svyatoy Aleksandr Nevskiy (66) 1762 |
Fourth Rate
Gorod Archangelsk (54)
Neptunus (54)
Schlusselburg (54)
Svyatoy Nikolay Vtoroy (54)
Varakhail (54)
Frigates
| Archangel Mikhail (32) |
Svyatoy Mikhail (32) Svyatoy Sergiy (32) |
Prams
A pram was a shallow-draught flat-bottomed ship used in the Baltic Sea. Its shallow draught allowed it to approach the shore. It typically carried 10-20 guns on one gun deck and had either two or three masts. (Source: Wikipedia - Pram (ship))
Olifant (36) renamed Buyvol in 1759
Dikiy Byk (36)
Olifant (36)
Note: the first two took part in the Siege of Memel
Pinks
A pink was a type of small ship with a narrow stern, having derived from the Dutch word pincke. It had a large cargo capacity and was generally square rigged. Its flat bottom (and resulting shallow draught) made it more useful in shallow waters than some similar classes of ship. It was most often used for short-range missions in protected channels, as both merchantmen and warships. (Source: Wikipedia - Pink (ship))
| Kola (12) Lapomink (12) |
Holmogory (12) Verbl'ud (22) |
Note: all pinks of the Russian Navy were of frigate size or even bigger and usually served as escorting vessels
Packet-boats
A packet-boat was a small boat designed for domestic mail, passenger and freight transportation.
Sokol (12)
Lebed' (12)
Merkurius (12)
Kur'er (16)
Note: during the Seven Years War, Russian packet-boats served as light vanguard in cruising squadrons and as post ships
Bomb Ketches
Donder (10)
Jupiter (10)
Samson (10)
Note: all took part in the Siege of Colberg of 1761
Fireships
Mitau
Transports
Flutes
Novopostroenniy
Note: bought by the Russian Navy for transport service
Galiots
A galiot was a small transport ship.
| Rak Cherepaha |
Junge-Tobias (former Prussian) Galiot No. 1 (former Prussian) |
Note: it seems that these were the only galiots known for their service or actions during the Seven Years' War, or maybe the only galiots that were present in the navy list (others used for transport services during the war could have been chartered as civil vessels).
References
Chernyshev, A.A.: Russian sailing fleet, Vol.1, 1997
Didier: Didier, la Bible des navires de 1700 à 1850 - Russie, Histoire et figurines
Harrison, Simon and Manuel Blasco, Three Decks - Warships in the Age of Sail
Shirokorad, A. B.: 200 лет парусного флота (200 years of sailing fleet)
Acknowledgement
Roman Shlygin for his important contribution to the articles related to the Russian Navy
