Russian brig Merkurii

	Meeting of the Brig "Merkuriy" with a Turkish Squadron by Vladimir Kosov
History
Russian Empire
Name	Merkuriy
Builder	Sevastopol Shipyard
Laid down	February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1819
Launched	May 19 [O.S. May 7] 1820
Decommissioned	1857
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class & type	20-gun brig
Displacement	445 tonnes (438 long tons; 491 short tons)
Length	29.5 m (96 ft 8 in)
Beam	9.4 m (30 ft 10 in)
Draught	4.2 m (13 ft 9 in)
Depth of hold	4.1 m (13 ft 5 in)
Propulsion	Sails; Fourteen oars;
Sail plan	856 m2 (9,215 sq ft); Two square-rigged masts with studding sails, jibs, staysails, and a gaff-rigged sail;
Complement	115
Armament	18 × 24-pounder carronades; 2 × 3-pounder long guns;

Merkuriy (Russian: Меркурий, lit. 'Mercury'; Russian pre-reform: Меркурій) was a 20-gun brig—a two-masted sailing warship of the Imperial Russian Navy. It is famous for its lopsided battle with two Ottoman Navy ships, which took place on May 26 [O.S. May 14] 1829 during the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829.

The name Pamiat Merkuria (Russian: Память Меркурия, lit. 'In Memory of Merkuriy') was given to a number of ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.