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the command of the well-known Mr. Captain-Commander Faddeia
Faddeevich Bellinshauzen, was instructed to sail to the Ant-
arctic Circle, and the second, under command of Captain-Lieu-
tenant M. N. Vasilev, was to survey the northern shores of
America, and to look for a passage to the Atlantic Ocean.
On June 4 [according to Lazarev it was on July 4], 1819
Captain Vasilev put to sea with two naval sloops, the Dis-
covery [Otkrytie] and the Good Intent [Blagonamerennyi].
Their personnel consisted of the following persons:
Chief of the division and commander of the sloop, Dis-
covery, Captain- Lieut. Mikhail Nikolaevich Vasilev.
Commander of the sloop, Good Intent, Captain-Lieut.
Gleb Semenovich Shishmarev.
Lieutenants: | ||
---|---|---|
[Aleksandr Avinov]2 | Avinov | [on the Discovery] |
[Pavel Zelenoi] | Zelenyi | [Discovery] |
[Ivan Ignatev] | Ignatev | [Good Intent] |
[Aleksei Lazarev] | Lazarev | [Good Intent] |
[Roman Boil] | Boil | [Discovery |
[Ivan Stogov] | Stogov | [listed as a midshipman on |
the Discovery] |
Midshipmen: | ||
---|---|---|
[Nikolai Shishmarev] | Shishmarev | [Good Intent] |
[Roman Hall] | Hall | [Discovery] |
Prince Pahava | [not listed in the | |
Lazarev volume] |
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