The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine, part. I, p. 246, published at London 1829, contains the next small note dealing with Russian naval shipbuilding. "The quantity of shipping furnished by the stocks of the Admiralty at St. Petersburgh exceeds that supplied by any other naval arsenals in the empire. It is stated as follows: From 1712 tot 1725, 40 vessels; from 1725 tot 1745, 26; from 1745 to 1763, 40; from 1763 tot 1797, 93; from 1797 to 1801, 10; from 1801 tot 1825, 44. The number of vessels of 100 and 50 guns launched previously to 1801 was 72, without reckoning 6084 sail of all sizes. the largest ship produced on those stocks was the Blagodate of 130 guns, begun the 29th of Feb. 1799 and launched the 2nd of August, 1800. The material used in the construction of all the vessels is oak of Caucasus".
