kasoumoff

Updated: June 14, 2025

Although the leader of the expedition was named, the officers and seamen were still to be selected, and the vessels to be manned were not to be had in either the Russian empire or at Hamburg. In London alone were Lisianskoï, afterwards second in command to Kruzenstern, and the builder Kasoumoff, able to obtain two vessels at all suitable to the service in which they were to be employed.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century