Gilbert Islands 1 dollar 2014 The ship of Pallada

Gilbert Islands 1 dollar 2014 Pallada.

The Pallada frigate was launched on September 1, 1832, with the Okhta shipyard. The task to build the ship was given personally by Nicholas I - he needed a ship for foreign voyages. For the construction of the ship took one of the most famous masters Colonel VF Stokke. He was given the task to build a "Pallada" for the design of the American ship "President", which was captured by the British and which was considered one of the best ships for ocean voyages.

After laying the keel on the frigate, his commander was assigned to the experienced captain-lieutenant PS Nakhimov. He already made a round-the-world trip and on the ship "Azov" participated in the defeat of the Turkish squadron in 1827. When Pallada was built, a frigate of the Russian Navy, P. Nakhimov made a huge number of improvements: chains instead of ropes for anchors, drinking water was stored in tin-plated square cisterns. This is only a small part of P. Nakhimov's proposals. Less than a year was spent on building a ship, the equipment of which was the most perfect in the Russian fleet.

As a result, when on 01.09.1832 the ship dismantled from the pallas "Pallas", the frigate went to Kronstadt to sheath the bottom of copper. In 1833 the frigate was completely ready for combat service.

During his service the frigate Pallada traveled to England, Spain, Germany and even Japan. Japan was the last country where the ship visited. The purpose of the visit was a diplomatic mission, represented by Vice-Admiral Putyatin, the secretary was the famous writer Goncharov (who described the period of his trip in the essay "Frigate Pallas").

This frigate is called the masterpiece of all domestic sailing shipbuilding. It had a magnificent and high-quality finish, perfect proportions, a lot of innovations (for example, portholes were built in the hull, which betrayed the ship some kind of non-standard).

With the outbreak of the Crimean War, the frigate from Japan headed straight for Russia, fearing that he might be captured by England. Themselves, the British themselves organized a search for a ship, having allocated a powerful squadron for this. The captain of "Pallada" gave an order to lighten the ship and try to enter the mouth of the Amur, but even in the emptied condition the frigate could not get there. He stopped at the Imperial Harbor, the crew went to the Nikolaevsky post, and the ship was flooded, it happened on January 31, 1856.

The Gilbert Islands are a group of islands in the western Pacific Ocean, in Micronesia. They were part of the English colony of the Gilbert Islands and Ellis. Currently belong to the State of Kiribati. Include 16 coral atolls. The administrative center of Tarawa.

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