Wreck of the St. Nicholas (3)
Excerpt from the annual report of the Feodosiia city overseer
On November 20, the Russian merchant vessel St. Nicholas (Sv. Nikolaj), which belongs to a merchant named Amoretti of Feodosiia, was carrying 500 chetverts of grain from Mariupol' to Feodosiia. The ship met with a fierce adverse wind and sank, along with its cargo, off the coast of Sudak. Those on board swam to shore.
Source: RGIA f.1281, op.11, d.160, l.22ob