![]() Mirny and its Captain Mikhail Lazarev on a commemorative coin of the Bank of Russia
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History | |
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Russian Empire | |
Name | Mirny |
Namesake | Peaceful |
Builder |
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Laid down | 1818 |
Launched | 1819 |
Christened | Ladoga |
Maiden voyage | 1819 |
Renamed | Mirny |
Homeport | Kronshtadt |
General characteristics | |
Type | 24-gun sloop-of-war |
Displacement | 530 tonnes[1] |
Length | 36.6 m (120.1 ft)[1] |
Beam | 9.15 m (30.0 ft) [1] |
Depth of hold | 4.6 m (15.1 ft)[1] |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Speed | 10 kn (19 km/h)[1] |
Complement | 72[1] |
Armament |
Mirny (Russian: Ми́рный, literally "Peaceful") was a 20-gun sloop-of-war of the Imperial Russian Navy, the second ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1819–1821, during which Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (commander of the lead ship Vostok) and Mikhail Lazarev (commanding Mirny) circumnavigated the globe, discovered the continent of Antarctica and twice circumnavigated it, and discovered a number of islands and archipelagos in the Southern Ocean and the Pacific.[1]