Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1904 — COURSE WHICH THE RUSSIAN BALTIC FLEET WILL TAKE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COURSE WHICH THE RUSSIAN BALTIC FLEET WILL TAKE.

The course that the Russian Baltic » ( fleet, which has started for the far East. will probably take is indicated in the map. The length of the journey is more oca<• *» X’JL than half the distance around the world, for 12,270 nautical miles or 14,110 statute miles separate Port Arthur and Cronstadt by the shortest sea route. At an average steaming rate of ten knots, not including many stoppages for coaling, it would take fifty-one jdays for the fleet to get within sight of the beleaguered fortress. Between Gibraltar and Port Arthur there are at least twenty ports at which, in time of peace, the ships could coal, but-vhe ports being in neutral hands this is forbidden in present circumstances. Any adverse weather will cause great delay, for the larger ships must hold back for the small craft, of which there are many in the new fleet.