Zarembo, 1834-1838
Capt.-Lieut. Dionysius Fedorovich Zarembo, in command of the
Russian American Company's ship Prince Alexander,
sailed from Cronstadt on August 14, 1840,
and, going via Cape Horn, arrived at Sitka on April 3, 1841. With him on the voyage went
Lieutenant Zagoskin. Zarembo had previously been in the Russian colonies, having first gone
out as pilot in 1816 with Ponafidin in the Suworof and again in 1819
with the same officer in the Borodino.
He surveyed Wrangell harbor in 1834 and Woewodski harbor in 1838. His maps
are shown as insets on Russian Hvdrographic chart 1396, published in 1848. For a very brief
and unofficial account of his voyage see Journal Russian Hydrographic Department, 1860,
Vol. VIII, pp. 189-140. Zarembo, in command of the brig Chichago founded the present town
of Wrangell in the spring of 1834, building there a stockade or fort, which after him was
named Dionysius.