Vostok (sloop-of-war)

Vostok and its captain, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen on a commemorative coin of the Bank of Russia, 1994
History
Russian Empire
Name	Vostok
Namesake	East
Builder	Okhta Admiralty shipyard, Saint Petersburg
Launched	1818
Homeport	Kronstadt
Fate	Broken up in 1828
General characteristics
Type	24-gun sloop-of-war[1]
Displacement	900 tonnes[1]
Length	39.62 m (130.0 ft)[1]
Beam	10.36 m (34.0 ft) [1]
Depth of hold	4.8 m (15.7 ft)[1]
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Speed	10 kn (19 km/h)[1]
Complement	117[1]
Armament	16 × 127 mm pounder guns 12 × 120 mm carronades[1]

Vostok was a 28-gun sloop-of-war of the Imperial Russian Navy, the lead ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1819–1821, during which Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (commander of the ship) and Mikhail Lazarev (commanding Mirny, the second ship) circumnavigated the globe, discovered the continent of Antarctica and twice circumnavigated it, and discovered a number of islands and archipelagos in the Southern Ocean and the Pacific.^[1]