Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1904 — RUSSIA’S BALTIC FLEET. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RUSSIA’S BALTIC FLEET.

Squadi on Under Way for the Far East to Meet the Japanese. The Baltic fleet which Russia is sending to tiie far Bast consists of seven battleships, two armored cruisers, seven protected cruisers, twelve destroyers, one repairing and one hospital ship, one ice breaker, a distilling ship and a

large number of colliers. Four of the battleships, the Barodino, Orel, Imperator Alexander 111. and the Kniaj Sowaroff, are of the first class; three are of about 13,(190 tons displacement and develop 10,000 horse-power and 18 knots speed. The batteries consist of 4 12-incll, 12 0 inch, 20 3-iuch, 20 3-pounders and 0 *l-pounder guns, and from four to six torpedo tubes, two of which are carried under water. Their normal coal supply is 1,250 tons, with a maximum capacity of 2.0(H) tons. They were launched at various dates in 1901 and 1902 at St. Petersburg, and v ere given their trials late in 1903 or early in 1904. The Imperator Alexander 111. on her official trial at Kronstadt averaged 17.30 knots in four runs ovor a measured mile, and developed 10,205 indicated horse- i>ower, on a coal consumption of two pounds per horse-power for each hour. It was intended to send her to the far Hast in the early spring, but her tests appear to have taken place before she was fully completed. The other battleships are the Oslabyu, of 12,074 tons, launched in 1898; the Nnvarin, of 10,200 tons, launched in 1891, and the Sissoi Veliky, of 10,400 launched in 1894. Two armored cruisers— 4 ,| I *.>)isK■,i. ~f 5.552 tons, iu; 1 -• :i lss.; ..ml .'C'Uf ->~

DETACHMENT OF THE BALTIC FLEET.