![]() Svyataya Anna in her incarnation as the yacht Blencathra, from Helen Peel's Polar Gleams[1]
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Name | HMS Newport |
Ordered | 5 March 1860 |
Builder | Pembroke Dockyard |
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Launched | 20 July 1867 |
Commissioned | April 1868 |
Fate | Sold to Sir Allen Young in May 1881 |
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Name | Pandora II |
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Name | Blencathra |
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Fate | Presumed crushed by ice and lost 1914 |
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Class and type | Philomel-class wooden screw gunvessel |
Displacement | 570 tons |
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Beam | 25 ft 4 in (7.7 m) |
Depth of hold | 13 ft (3.96 m) |
Installed power | 325 ihp (242 kW) |
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Speed | 9.25 knots (17.13 km/h; 10.64 mph) |
Complement | 60 |
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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.