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After he had brought to an end the investigations connected with his son's trial, Peter left Petersburg for Reval on August 8, at the head of a fleet, consisting of twenty-two men-of-war. The Tsar was on board the new ninety-gun frigate, _The Old Oak_, which had only quite recently been launched from the Admiralty dockyard. This was the first ship which had been built according to the Tsar's own designs, by Russian workmen, from Russian wood, without the help of foreigners.
One evening, as they were passing out of the Finnish Gulf into the Baltic Sea, Peter stood at the helm and steered.