" stated in a prior post about the Naval Academy as one of the first vessels schools built under the Empire to receive and train future officers of the French Navy was actually an old Russian ship, assigned to the France in December 1809. Certainly, the history of this assignment should be clarified.
In maritime Wars France Port of Toulon, his arms, his administration, from its origin to the present day (1861) Vincent Felix Brown wrote:
"Two Russian ships were released to the island of Elba, at the end of October 1807, to make water [we say that a ship made of water when supplies of fresh water] and were still there six months after: Admiral Ganteaume [then commander of the Toulon squadron] sent near them, April 24, the brig Shark, to induce them to come to Toulon; they are anchored on May 3 These vessels, called the Saint-Pierre and Moscow, both 74, were commanded by Commodore Goetzen; they were pegged iron; their hull was very old, and their condition did not allow them to undertake a more voyage; this was what determined the Russian admiral Siniavin [commander of the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean] to let both the mouths of the Cattaro [in the Illyrian Provinces], where he had ventured to Portoferraio [main town and port of the island of Elba]. These vessels are repaired one after the other in the harbor, and it provided for all their needs.
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The two Russian ships were unarmed at the time [1809], and ceded to France on estimation; ground crews returned to their homeland. The commission officers of the two nations that estimates the judged unable to make any companion, and they were evaluated in the Treaty, with all their weapons, as objects out of service
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