Pallada (Russian: Паллада) is the name of two ships of the Russian navy.
Pallada was a frigate and the flagship of Admiral Yevfimy Putyatin during his visit to Japan in 1853. During the expedition, she was commanded by Admiral Ivan Unkovsky. These efforts culminated in the signing of the Treaty of Shimoda, a commercial treaty between Russia and Japan in 1855.
Pallada arrived in Nagasaki on August 12, 1853, just one month after the first visit of Commodore Perry.
On his expedition, Putyatin was accompanied by Alexander Mozhaysky and a secretary, the writer Ivan Goncharov, who wrote a travelogue, The Frigate Pallada (The Frigate Pallas), published in 1858 ("Pallada" is the Russian spelling of "Pallas").[1]
The tall ship Pallada is a 354 foot long three-masted frigate. Pallada arrived in Kodiak, Alaska on July 20, 2011 and was welcomed by hundreds of people who lined the waterfront.[2] The Kodiak visit was the first stop of a North Pacific tour including Victoria, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Honolulu. The voyage commemorated the 270th anniversary of Russia's colonization of Alaska and the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering space flight.
Pallada is considered the world's fastest sailing ship,[3] as it holds the world speed record of 18.7 knots in the Sail Training International largest and most prestigious Class A. There exists a claim that during the circumnavigation of 2007-2008 Pallada posted 18.8 knots, but this record still remains officially unrecognized.