Phoenix (cruising ship)

Two-masted cruising ship with a brigantine sail. The length of the schooner was 24.4 meters , width - 7.3 meters, draft - 2.9 meters. The armament of the ship consisted of 12 guns.

In 1787, the ship was bought by Russia in Greece and became part of the Black Sea Fleet. Participated in the war with Turkey in 1787-1791. In the autumn of 1787, it passed from Taganrog to Kerch , and then to Sevastopol .

In the summer of 1788, the ship under the command of warrant officer Georgy Nikiforovich Benardaki ^[1] , as part of Rear-Admiral's squadron Count M. I. Voinovich , went to sea in search of the enemy. On July 3 (14), 1788, the brigantine participated in the first naval battle of the Russian-Turkish war of 1787-1791 near Fidonisi between the fleets of Russia and the Ottoman Empire . In 1789, as part of squads and squadrons, she repeatedly went to sea to search for Turkish ships.

In April 1790, the ship delivered supplies and materials from Kherson to Sevastopol. In May 1790, with the squadron of Rear Admiral F. F. Ushakov , along with other cruiser ships, searched for Turkish ships, participated in the blockade of Anapa , in the battle near the Kerch Strait (was in reserve). In August 1790, in a battle near the island of Tendra , captured 10 Turkish cannon brigantine. In October, the captured Turkish ships escorted to the Dnieper Liman to Ochakov . In November, together with the cruising ship “Clement Pope of Rome” was sent to cruise to the Rumelian coast in the Varna region - m. Kaliakria. They took two Turkish vessels Sakaleva and Tumbaz (captured flooded) from Varna, then returned to Sevastopol and brought the captured vessel Sakaleva there. In April 1791, ships again went to search for Turkish ships to the shores of Tavrida , and then to the Anatolian coast - from Sinop to Constantinople . April 1 sunk two Turkish vessels. In July, the ship in the squadron F. F. Ushakov went to sea. July 31, participated in the battle at Cape Kaliakria .

In 1794, the Phoenix under the command of midshipman S. A. Belisarius with a squadron was on a practical voyage in the Black Sea , and in 1795-1797 in the Black and Azov Seas.

In the war with France of 1798–1800, the ship under the command of Lieutenant L. F. Morskoi was used as a transport ship. In November 1798, the ship arrived from Sevastopol to Corfu with provisions for the squadron of Vice-Admiral F. F. Ushakov. In December 1798, FF Ushakov's demands to Ibrahim Pasha delivered to Avpona to send Turkish troops to storm Corfu, blocking the fortress. At the beginning of 1799 the ship was with a squadron at Corfu, escorting transport ships with captured Frenchmen, entered Messina and arrived in Toulon . In 1801 and 1802 the brigantine sailed between the ports of the Black Sea.

In 1803, the ship was under the command of Lieutenant S. S. Karachinsky with the Nikolaev Nort, dismantled after 1803 in Nikolaev .

• G. N. Benardaki (1788–1791);
• S. A. Belisarius (1794-1798);
• LF Morskoy (1797-1802) ^[2] ;
• S. S. Karachinskaya (1803) ^[3] .

In 2015, the Master-Ship company (Milania LLC) produced a set for self-assembly of the wooden model of the Phoenix ship ^[4] .

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