List of Russian sail frigates

This is a list of Russian sail frigates of the period 1694–1852:
The format is: Name, number of guns (rank/real amount), launch year (A = built in Arkhangelsk), fate (service = combat service, BU = broken up)

Sail frigates of war

Early Russian frigates

Sviatogo Dukha-class (2 units)

Frigates of the Baltic Fleet (1703–1852)

Sias‘skii-class (2 units)


Modern exact replica (1999) of frigate Shtandart (1703)

Shlissel‘burg-class (7 units)

Mikhail Arkhangel-class (2 units)


Sviatoi Piotr-class (2 units)


Kreyser-class (3 units)


Gektor-class (16 units)


Astafii-class (16 units)


Briachislav-class (8 units)

Arkhangel Mikhail-class (3 units)

Built according to drawings of ex-Swedish frigate HMS Venus, which had designed by F. af Chapman


Tikhvenskaya Bogoroditsa-class (2 units)

Built according to improved drawings of ex-Swedish frigate HSwMS Venus, designed by F. af Chapman

Speshnyi-class (34 units)

The design Speshnyi class proved highly successful with the result that the Russian Navy built 34 over several decades. The first 11 were built over a period of 24 years. The first three were built before 1810, and three more were built towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars. These last three were built of larch and pine, a decision that sacrificed durability for speed and cost of construction. As a result, the Russian Navy sold these three, and some other frigates, to Spain in 1818. The last five of the initial eleven were laid down between 1818 and 1823. The Great Flood of 1824 damaged three, but the Navy salvaged them, and two (Provoryni (1820) and Konstantin (1824)), fought at the battle of Navarino. By 1831 all of the first 11 had been captured, wrecked, or broken up, with the exception of Konstantin. She was hulked in 1837 and finally broken up in 1848. Between 1825 and 1844 the Navy had another 23 built.

Model of the frigate O'Higgins from the Museo Naval y Marítimo of the Chilean Navy
First 11 units
Second 23 units
44-gun frigate Avrora (1835)

Amfitrida-class (7 units)

Kastor-class (2 units)


Pomona-class (2 units)

Provornyi-class (8 units)

Pallada-class (2 units)

Frigate Pallada (1832).

Built according to improved drawings of HMS President (1800)


Frigates of the Azov Flotilla (1770–1783) of Catherine the Great

Pervyi-class (2 units)

The only two frigates, participated the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) consisting of Azov Flotilla

Tretyi-class (2 units)

Piatyi-class (3 units)

Vos‘moi-class (9 units)

Frigates of the Black Sea Fleet (1783–1855)

Vos‘moi-class (last 3 units)


Kinburn-class (3 units)

Apostol Andrei-class (2 units)

50-gun battlefrigates, 2-deckers

Piotr Apostol-class (6 units)

46-gun battlefrigates


Voin-class (2 units)


Vezul-class (2 units)

Tenedos-class (6 units)

According to their designer, admiral Alexey Greig, this frigates only by a negligible margin inferiored to 74-gun ships of the line


Frigates of the Caspian Flotilla

№ 1-class (3 units)

Kavkaz-class (5 units)


Rowing frigates

This type of sailing & rowing vessels was intended for the skerries of the Gulf of Finland. These vessels, except for the two Evangelist Mark-class vessels, belonged to the Baltic Rowing (Army) Fleet.

Evangelist Mark-class (2 units)

Ekaterina-class (18 units)

Hemmemas (6 units)

A hemmema (Russian pronunciation "gemam") was a Swedish design by Fredrik Henrik af Chapman. It was a type of small rowing frigate for archipelago warfare used by the Swedish archipelago fleet.

Training frigates

Built special for naval training. Belonged to the Sea Cadet Corps' Squadron.

Malyi-class (6 units)

95 naval cadets.

Vernost‘-class (3 units)

75 naval cadets.

Prizes (frigates)

Capturing of Swedish 44-gun frigate Venus by Russian 22-gun cutter Merkuriy of June 1, 1789

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Decadencia de la Marina española (Spanish)

Bibliography

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