St. Petersburg, 13 August. The 24-gun corvette Onderneming [Predpriatie]
left Cronstad 9 August for a discovery voyage around the world.(1) The crew
numbered 13 officers and 80 sailors, all volunteers of the imperial navy.
Further more were two medicines (one of which was Eschscholtz), an astronomer,
a mineralogist and other experts. Her commanding officer was captain lieutenant
Von Kotzebue.(2)
Notes
1. Otto von Kotzebue. A new voyage around the world in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. I, London, 1830, p. 2: “She was the first vessel built in Russia under a roof, (a very excellent plan), was the size of a frigate of a middling rank, and, that she might not be unnecessarily burdened, was provided with only twenty-four six-pounders”.
2. Otto Jevstafjevitsj von Kotzebue (30 December 1787 Reval – 15 February 1846). A Russian explorer.
Notes
1. Otto von Kotzebue. A new voyage around the world in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. I, London, 1830, p. 2: “She was the first vessel built in Russia under a roof, (a very excellent plan), was the size of a frigate of a middling rank, and, that she might not be unnecessarily burdened, was provided with only twenty-four six-pounders”.
2. Otto Jevstafjevitsj von Kotzebue (30 December 1787 Reval – 15 February 1846). A Russian explorer.
