page_title: Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Imperial Russian frigate Aleksandr Nevskiy. Русский: Винтовой фрегат Александр Невский в доке. Тулон лето 1868 года.
context_page_description: Alexander Nevsky was a large screw frigate of the Russian Imperial Navy. The ship was designed as part of a challenge being offered by the Russian Empire to the Royal Navy, but was lost in a shipwreck in 1868 while Grand Duke Alexei, son of Tsar Alexander II, was aboard.
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  Alexander Nevsky was a screw frigate of 5,100 tons (bm) and mounting 51 smoothbore cannon, making her a large vessel for her class. The ship's cannon were all 60-pounder smoothbores, divided into long- and medium-class guns.
  The vessel was part of the expansion of the Russian Imperial Navy in cooperation with the United States, in order to challenge then-rival Great Britain's Royal Navy.  The ship was designed by Ivan Dmitriev based on the frigate General Admiral, an American-made ship ordered by the Russian Imperial Navy prior to the American Civil War. It was named after Russian historical icon Alexander Nevsky (1230–1263), making it the seventh warship at the time that had carried his name.
  Once commissioned, the vessel was part of the Atlantic Squadron of Rear Admiral Stepan Lesovsky.  In 1863, Lesovsky sailed the Atlantic Squadron, using Alexander Nevsky as his flagship, to New York City in order to show the flag during a low point in American-Russian relations.  The ship's captain at the time was Captain Mikhail Yakovlevich Federovsky.
  The fleet's American design was noted with enthusiasm by American spectators.  For instance, it was noted in Harper's Weekly that:
  The two largest in the squadron, the frigate Alexander Nevski and Peresvet, are evidently vessels of modern build, and much about them leads the unpracticed eye to think they were built in this country ... The flagship's guns are of American make, being cast in Pittsburgh.
  Alexander Nevsky and the other vessels of the Atlantic squadron stayed in American waters for seven months, despite the state of civil war then existing in the United States. They even dropped anchor at Washington, D.C., the ships having sailed up the Potomac River. At one point during this extended stay, Alexander Nevsky had engine problems during a local cruise and had to return to New York for repairs.
caption: Alexander Nevsky, 1868, Toulon
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