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Excerpt from Publications of the Navy Records Society, Vol. 19
In October 1812, the Emperor of Russia applied for permission to send his fleet to winter in England, as he considered it would not be safe at either Cronstadt or Sweaborg, should the French march on St. Petersburg (am'e, vol. 11. P. I had supposed that after the retreat of the French from Moscow, the scheme had been abandoned, and was greatly surprised to find, by the later despatches at the Record Office, that the Russian fleet arrived in England in December 1812, and remained in our ports till 1814, Russia receiving an annual subsidy of for its maintenance. It is a point that seems to have escaped the notice of our historians, nor have I met with any mention of it, except in the Naval Chronicle, ' 2 which records its arrival at Chat ham and its force. The more important events of the period presumably crowded it out. By the kindness of Vice Admiral Andoe, lately superin tendent of Chatham Dockyard, I have ascertained that this fleet was a white elephant, of which the authorities there were glad to be relieved.
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