Pilad is a 20-gun sailing corvette of the Russian Black Sea Fleet . Member of the Crimean War .
| Pilad | |
|---|---|
| Service | |
 Russia | |
| Class and type of vessel | 20 cannon corvette |
| Type of sailing weapon | Three mast ship |
| Organization | Black Sea Fleet |
| Manufacturer | Nikolaev admiralty |
| Ship master | I.V. Mashkin [1] |
| Construction started | October 4, 1838 [1] |
| Launched | June 23, 1840 [1] |
| Withdrawn from the fleet | December 14, 1854 [1] |
| Main characteristics | |
| Length between perpendiculars | 39.3 [1] / 46.3 m [2] |
| Midship Width | 10.9 [1] / 12.2 m [2] |
| Draft | 5 m [1] |
| Mover | sail |
| Armament | |
| Total number of guns | 20/22 [2] |
Content
Corvette Description
One of two sailing corvettes of the same type, the length of the vessel, according to various sources, ranged from 39.3 to 46.3 meters , width from 10.9 to 12.2 meters , and draft - 5 meters . The armament of the vessel was 20 24-pound cannon carronades , one 8-pound and one 3-pound copper guns [1] [2] [3] .
Service History
Corvette "Pilad" was laid in Nikolaev on October 4, 1838 and, after launching on June 23, 1840 , became part of the Russian Black Sea Fleet . The construction was carried out by shipbuilder I.V. Mashkin [1] [2] .
He was at the disposal of the Russian envoy in Greece in 1841, 1842, 1850 and 1851, while sailing in the Archipelago and the Mediterranean Sea . From 1843 to 1849, in 1852 and 1853, as a part of squadrons, went on practical voyages to the Black Sea for two to three months a year and took part in operations off the coast of the Caucasus as part of detachments. On May 10, 1846, as part of Rear Admiral P.S. Nakhimov’s detachment, he took part in repelling the Highlanders' attack on Sukhum . On June 10, he again assisted in repelling the attack of the Highlanders already on Golovinsky Fort. On June 19, near the fort, Lazarevsky destroyed three smugglers' ships, and on July 18 took part in the landing of 50 people to assist the garrison surrounded by the Golovinsky fort, and took up a position to provide artillery support from the sea, but the highlanders did not attack the fort. January 13, 1848 he was caught in a strong forest in the Novorossiysk Bay, torn from anchors and cast ashore, while many sailors received frostbite on their hands and feet. Two weeks later, the corvette was taken aground and sent for repair to Sevastopol [1] [3] .
He took part in the Crimean War . On November 7, 1853, as part of the detachment of Vice Admiral L.M. Serebryakov, he conducted a bombardment of the St. Nicholas mount captured by the Turkish troops, but the storm that started forced the detachment to go to sea. On December 8, he escorted transport vessels from Sevastopol to Sukhum, and by March 5 of the following year he returned to Sevastopol, where he was delivered to the Ship Bay [1] [2] . On December 14, 1854, the corvette was flooded at the Sevastopol raid in order to block the entry of enemy vessels into the raid, since some of the previously flooded vessels had been destroyed by the storm at that time. After the war, during the clearing of the Sevastopol Bay, the corvette's corps was blown up [4] .
Corvette Commanders
At different times, the commanders of the Pilad corvette were [3] :
- S. G. Alekseev (1841-1843).
- N.F. Yurkovsky (from 1844 to January 13, 1848).
- A.P. Spitsyn (1850-1851).
- L.A. Bertier-Delagard (from 1852 to June 1853).
- L.I. Budishchev (from June to September 1853).
- K. Ya. Yavlensky (from October 1853 to 1854).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Corvette “Pilad” . Sevastopol.info. Date of treatment December 12, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Corvettes of the Black Sea Fleet . randewy.ru. Date of treatment December 12, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Pilad type corvettes . "Military Russia". Date of treatment September 1, 2014.
- ↑ Ships and vessels sunk in the Sevastopol Bay in 1854-1855. . krimea.info. Date of treatment December 12, 2013. Archived June 4, 2013.
Literature
- Veselago F.F. List of Russian warships from 1668 to 1860. - SPb. : Printing Ministry of the Ministry of the Sea, 1872. - 798 p.
- Chernyshev A. A. Russian sailing fleet. Directory. - M .: Military Publishing House, 2002 .-- T. 2 .-- 480 p. - (Ships and ships of the Russian fleet). - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-203-01789-1 .
- Shirokorad A. B. 200 years of the sailing fleet of Russia / Ed. A. B. Vasiliev. - 2nd ed. - M .: Veche, 2007. - 448 p. - ISBN 978-5-9533-1517-3 .