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Central Naval Museum (Russian: Центральный военно-морской музей) is a naval museum in St Petersburg, Russia, reflecting the development of Russian naval traditions and the history of the Russian Navy. The museum’s permanent display includes such relics as the Botik of Peter the Great, Catherine II’s marine ...
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Museum of St. Petersburg Art, St. Petersburg, Russia [18] Russian Academy of Arts Research Museum [19] The State Hermitage Museum. General Staff Building's East Wing (pre-1917 ministerial quarters) [20] Hermitage Theatre; Menshikov Palace [21] Military Gallery; Museum of Porcelain (Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory) [22] New Hermitage ...
Armed cutter, etching in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Royal Navy made use of a considerable number of hired armed vessels . These were generally smaller vessels, often cutters and luggers , that the Navy used for duties ranging from carrying despatches and passengers to convoy escort ...
Opyt was a purpose-built cutter that cruised the Baltic in 1807. [2] On 10 June [O.S. 28 May] 1808, she arrived at Sveaborg from Kronshtadt to join the division under Captain of 2nd rank Lodewijk van Heiden (who went on to become the Russian Admiral at the Battle of Navarino in 1827), to help in the city's defense.
The institute was established in 1894, to operate the Russian Empire's first ship model basin—the Naval Administration Towing Tank—on New Holland Island in Saint Petersburg. On 8 March that year, Emperor Alexander III and members of the royal family toured the facility, which is considered the foundation date of the institute. [2]
HMS Sherborne (also HM cutter Sherborne, HMS Sherbourne) was a 10-gun cutter of the Royal Navy. She served in the English Channel for her entire career, operating against smugglers. She served in the English Channel for her entire career, operating against smugglers.
HMS Dolphin was 10-gun cutter that served the Royal Navy from 1793 to 1802, first as a hired armed cutter, and then after the Navy purchased her, as HMS Dolphin.During her almost decade of service Dolphin patrolled the English Channel protecting British trade by capturing French privateers and recapturing their prizes.