Svyataya Anna

Svyataya Anna in her incarnation as the yacht Blencathra, from Helen Peel's Polar Gleams[1]
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Newport
Ordered	5 March 1860
Builder	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down	17 September 1860 Suspended in 1862
Launched	20 July 1867
Commissioned	April 1868
Fate	Sold to Sir Allen Young in May 1881
United Kingdom
Name	Pandora II
United Kingdom
Name	Blencathra
Owner	F W Leybourne-Popham (later, Major Andrew Coats)
Russia
Name	Svyataya Anna (Russian: Святая Анна)
Fate	Presumed crushed by ice and lost 1914
General characteristics
Class and type	Philomel-class wooden screw gunvessel
Displacement	570 tons
Length	145 ft (44.2 m) oa 127 ft 10.25 in (39.0 m) pp
Beam	25 ft 4 in (7.7 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft (3.96 m)
Installed power	325 ihp (242 kW)
Propulsion	Single 2 cyl. horizontal single-expansion steam engine Single screw
Speed	9.25 knots (17.13 km/h; 10.64 mph)
Complement	60
Armament	As built: 1 × 68 pdr muzzle-loading smooth-bore gun 2 × 24 pdr howitzers 2 × 20 pdr breech-loading guns After 1881: None

The Philomel-class gunvessel HMS Newport was launched in Wales in 1867. Having become the first ship to pass through the Suez Canal, she was sold in 1881 and renamed Pandora II.^[2] She was purchased again in about 1890 and renamed Blencathra,^[2] taking part in expeditions to the north coast of Russia. She was bought in 1912 by Georgy Brusilov for use in his ill-fated 1912 Arctic expedition to explore the Northern Sea Route, and was named Svyataya Anna (Russian: Святая Анна), after Saint Anne. The ship became firmly trapped in ice; only two members of the expedition, Valerian Albanov and Alexander Konrad, survived. The ship has never been found.