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Politkofsky (steam Tug)
''Politkofsky'' was a small Russian-built Imperial Russian Navy Paddle steamer#Sidewheeler, sidewheel gunboat that patrolled the Alaskan Panhandle in the 1860s. ''Politkofsky'' was built of yellow cedar in Russian America at New Archangel (now Sitka, Alaska, Sitka, Alaska), in the 1850s and was in length and of 152 tons Displacement ton, displacement. She had early copper boilers and a crosshead steam engine taken from the Imperial Russian Navy ship ''Imperator Nikolai I''. When Emperor of Russia, Tsar Alexander II of Russia sold Russian Alaska to the United States in 1867, ''Politkofsky'' was included in the deal. The gunboat was then sold into civilian service as a tugboat. As the tug ''Polly'', the ship worked along the northwest coast of North America. During the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, she operated on the Yukon River, where she sank in 1906. Maritime incidents in 1906 Ships built in Russia Tugboats of the United States Victorian-era gunboats Naval ships o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial Russian Navy
The Imperial Russian Navy () operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696 to 1917. Formally established in 1696, it lasted until dissolved in the wake of the February Revolution of 1917. It developed from a smaller force that had existed prior to Tsar Peter the Great's founding of the modern Russian navy during the Second Azov campaign in 1696. It expanded in the second half of the 18th century and reached its peak strength by the early part of the 19th century, behind only the British and French fleets in terms of size. The Imperial Navy drew its officers from the aristocracy of the Empire, who belonged to the state Russian Orthodox Church. Young aristocrats began to be trained for leadership at a national naval school. From 1818 on, only officers of the Imperial Russian Navy were appointed to the position of Chief Manager of the Russian-American Company, based in Russian America (present-day Alaska) for colonization and fur-trade developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
