Svyataya Anna
Svyataya Anna in her incarnation as the yacht Blencathra, from Helen Peel's Polar Gleams | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Newport |
| Ordered | 5 March 1860 |
| Builder | Pembroke Dockyard |
| Laid down |
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| 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 |
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| Russia | |
| Name |
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| Fate | Presumed crushed by ice and lost 1914 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Philomel-class wooden screw gunvessel |
| Displacement | 570 tons |
| Length | |
| Beam | 25 ft 4 in (7.7 m) |
| Depth of hold | 13 ft (3.96 m) |
| Installed power | 325 ihp (242 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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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. She was purchased again in about 1890 and renamed Blencathra, 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.