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Otkrytiye (Discovery): Russian Navy Sloop.
Launched in 1818 at the Okhta shipyard, St. Petersburg.
Dimensions: length: 39.5 metres; breadth: 10 metres; 900 tons. Guns: 28. Crew: 63.
Macquarie refers to it as: Otkritie.
Visited Port Jackson, NSW: 2 March [19 February] - 26 March [14 March] 1820.
Commanded by Captain-Lieutenant Mikhail Nikolayevich Vasil'yev (1770-1847).
[Sources: Barratt, Glynn. The Russians at Port Jackson 1814-1822. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1981 p.20; personal communication: A. Massov (2006); argo.net.au/andre/OTKRYTIEenfin.htm]

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