Frigate "The Saint Nikolay"
 During the first years of its existence, Nikolaev was important only as a military port and shipyard for the construction of ships for the Black Sea Fleet. All life was concentrated around the Admiralty and the shipyard now known as 61 Communards
On 5 January 1790 the keel was laid for the shipyard's first product. Ship-masters I. Dolzhenko and A. Sokolov guided the effort and the ship was launched only eight months later on 25 August 1790.
Among other things, the construction of the "Saint Nikolay" consumed seventy buckets of sunflower-seed oil, sixty pood of melted fat and twenty pieces of hot sulfur.
 After her guns were mounted, the "Saint Nikolay" made for Sevastopol under the command of Captain 2nd Rank M.L. Lvov, and joined the squadron commanded by Admiral F.F. Ushakov.
 In 1791, she participated in operations during the Russian-Turkish war. As commander of the "Saint Nikolay," Captain Lvov was awarded a golden sword for heroism in the battle near the cape of Kaliakria (the cape on the seacoast of the Black Sea in North-eastern Bulgaria).
 In the year 1792 the ship was moved to a higher class - it was called a frigate (military three jury-mast ship, that preceded modern battle-cruisers), and was included into squadron (a military unity of the ships under one leadership), send to the Mediterranean Sea. There "Saint Nikolay" participated in a military trip against Napoleon's army.
When the squadron returned to Russia, "Saint Nikolay" remained in Italy as part of a detachment of ships under the command of Captain 2nd rank Sorokin.
The life of the "Saint Nikolay" was short. The era of wooden sailing vessels was coming to an end and on 12 April 1801, she was destroyed.
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