Nadezhda (1802 Russian ship)

The sloop Nadezhda
History
Great Britain
Name	Leander
Namesake	Leander
Owner	T. Huggins
Launched	1799
Fate	Sold 1802
Russian Empire
Name	Nadezhda
Namesake	Russian: Надежда, "Hope"
Owner	Russian-American Company (RAC)
Acquired	1802
Fate	Crushed by ice December 1808
General characteristics
Tons burthen	425, or 429, or 430[1] bm
Complement	Leander:45[2] Nadezhda:68
Armament	Leander: 22 × 9-pounder guns,[1] or 24 × 18-pounder guns + 2 × 9-pounder carronades[a] Nadezhda: 16 guns

Nadezhda (or Nadeshda, or Nadeshada ) was a three-masted sloop, the ex-British merchantman and slave ship Leander, launched in 1799. A French privateer captured her in 1801, but she quickly came back into British hands. Private Russian parties purchased her in 1802 for the first Russian circumnavigation of the world (1803-1806), and renamed her. Although it is common to see references to the "frigate Nadezhda", she was a sloop, not a frigate, and she was never a warship. After her voyage of exploration she served as a merchant vessel for her owner, the Russian-American Company, and was lost in 1808.

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