Retsivan
An item dated St. Petersburg, Russia 24th reported that the Japanese attacked without success Port Arthur, loosing 4 battleships and 2 transports.(1) The Russian battleship Retvisan (2) performed extra ordinary. A second dated Paris, France 24th confirmed the unsuccessful Japanese attack and the loss of 4 ships.
Notes
1. The Russo-Japanese war between 8 February 1904-5 September 1905.
2. Battleship. Building at the shipyard of William Cramp&Sons, Philadelphia, USA was ordered in 2 May 1898, to built her was a modified Potemkin design used, she was with yard number 300 laid down on 29 July 1899, launched on 23 October 1900, commissioned on 23 March 1902, building costs 4.360.000 US dollars, and sunk by the Japanese army howitzers in Port Arthur on 6 December 1904, after the capitulation of the Russian forces on 2 January 1905 was nothing don with her until the Japanese salvaged her on 22 September 1905, renamed Hizen on 24 September 1905, repaired at Sasebo, Japan between 27 November 1905 and November 1908, refitted in 1913, stationed at Vladivostok in 1918, reclassified as 1st coast defence ship on 1 September 1921, disarmed at Sasebo, Japan as result of the Washington Naval Treaty in April 1922, stricken on 20 September 1923 and finally sunk in the Bungo channel while used as a target on 25 July 1924.
