NA Ship 2nd Rate St.Pavel

History

Built as a ship of the line at Nikolaev, Ukraine by the shipbuilders I. Afanasiev and I. Sokolov in 1794, for the Russian Imperial Navy. she was launched under the name SVYATOY PAVEL, (Saint Paul).

The pavel was the flag ship of Vice Admiral Fyodor F. Ushakov(1744-1817), based in the black sea. When in 1798 Russia and Turkey became allies, the russian Black Sea Fleet was allowed to pass the bosporus into the mediteranean. During the Period of 1798 and 1799 Ushakov and the pavel took part in various blockades and attacked french occopied forts and cities with their new Turkish allies, in 1799 Ushakov was also going to attack and command the attack on malta with nelson, but the attack never came and the fleet was sent back to the Black Sea.