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St Paul Harbour, Alaska, 1814 |
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Drawn by Captain Lisiansky and published by John Booth, London, in 1814, the harbour of St Paul, Kodiak Island in Russian America (modern Alaska) contains a Russian sloop, a light vessel with, typically, a small crew of around forty. A sister ship, the Neva (formerly the Thames, having been built in London) was the first Russian sloop to make it south of the equator to visit Sydney, Australia, in 1807. This small vessel of only 350 tons had a crew of five officers, a doctor, a commissioner of the Russian American Company (RAC) which owned the ship, and a compliment of thirty-six seamen. |
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