- PII
- S0205-96060000616-4-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/S60000616-4-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume 37 / Issue 2
- Pages
- 312-324
- Abstract
- At its founding in 1799, the Russian-American Company owned a small fl eet of sailing vessels used for communication between the Russian settlements in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands and for maintaining connections to Okhotsk and Kamchatka. Ships were often lost to shipwrecks in the early 19th century. The company built new ships in Okhotsk and in the colonies, or bought them from foreigners, most often the Americans. Starting in the 1830s, some ships were ordered from Finnish and later German wharfs. All the ships used for circumnavigation were foreign-built. The overall number of the ships grew from a half dozen to 17 around 1840, and then dropped to a dozen, but their cargo capacity continued to grow. During the later period after 1850, the bulk of the fl eet consisted of large three-mast barques, clippers and a few steamships.
- Keywords
- sailing fleet, shipbuilding, shipwrecks, the Russian-American Company, Russian America, colonization of Alaska
- Date of publication
- 01.04.2016
- Year of publication
- 2016
- Number of purchasers
- 1
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- 1357
RAS PresidiumВопросы истории естествознания и техники Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki
- ISSN (Print) 0205-9606
- ISSN (Online) 2713-041X
SHIP REGISTRIES OF THE RUSSIAN-AMERICAN COMPANY (1799-1867)
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