California Ship Registry

Vessel

Baikal

Baikal: 14 recorded visits to the Californias, 1825 to 1846, calling at San Diego, Monterey, Santa Bárbara, Sitka. Flag Russia. Every visit cited to its source.

Flag
Russia
Recorded span
1825 to 1846
Recorded visits
14
Name as written
Baikal (11), Baikal, Vaycal (1), Baykal (1), Bagol (1)
Anchorages
San Diego, Monterey, Santa Bárbara, Sitka, San Francisco
Record status
reviewed

Recorded visits

1825-02-14 · San Diego
port-call? alta otter seized

SD customs: Juan Mancisidor paid $406 (effects on the frigate 'Sachem'); tonnage duty on the Russian brig 'Vaycal' [*Bai

1826-11-30 · San Diego
port-call? alta departed

Nov movements: *Young Tartar*; Eng. *Inca* (Callao via S. Pedro, sailed for London); Russian brig *Baikal* from Sitka vi

1826-12-22 · Monterey
port-call? alta supply departed

Ship movements: Russian brig *Baikal* from Sitka (Capt. Egor Chernov), sailed to San Diego; the *Rover* (Cooper) re-ente

1827-12-13 · Monterey
port-call? alta

Tonnage + import duties paid by THREE Russian brigs — *Baikal* (203 t, $507.4), *Ofetcat*[?] (140 t, $350), *Golovin* (1

1827-12-31 · Santa Bárbara
port-call? alta supply

Dec income/expense: duties from Russian brig *Baikal* ($459) & frig. *Franklin* ($166); mission supplies $275; postal/ti

1828-10-13 · Sitka
port-call? baja otter|exploration

(survey Find #9) The RAC's long wheat/provisions trade with California; lacking salt at the frequented ports it has had

1829-02-12
unlocated alta otter

Pelos de nutria — has asked citizens José Mª Ramírez & Antº Buelna to appraise the otter pelts the 'Baikal' took at San

1829-05-14 · San Diego
port-call? alta

Salt extraction: licensed the Russian ship *Baikal* (at the request of the Sitka govt) to take salt from Baja (paid 1,30

1829-09-22 · San Diego
port-call? alta

Russian *Baikal* vaccine: the Russian brig *Baikal* (Capt. Adolph Etolin) left smallpox vaccine fluid at Monterey & San

1833-08-17 · San Diego
port-call? baja whaler arrived

Answers González's consultation on whalers & Russian ships. Institutional memory: the barca *Baikal* once came seeking s

1839-18 · Monterey
port-call? alta contraband|warship

customs reports (1839–41) — proposes Guerrero for the SF aduana; ⭐ the American ship *Corsario* smuggled at Santa Bárbar

1840-02-23 · San Francisco
port-call? alta warship

The RAC brig *Baikal* left Sitka with goods for Ross but bad weather forced it into SF without unloading at Ross the car

1840-12-14 · San Francisco
port-call? alta

Tonnage duty on the Russian frigate 'Elena': 309½ tons @ 12 r. = $464.4, less 25% = $348.4; less $96 the port captain ch

1846 · Monterey
unlocated alta

[Bancroft list 1846-8] Baikal: russia Monterey

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