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Saturday 24 March 2018

Labourers striking at Newski shipyard, St. Petersburg, Russia according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens dated 1905 no. 3

An item reported that despite the general strike and bloody riots at St. Petersburg, Russia at the Newski shipyard 12.000 labourers worked under construction were several submarines of the Protector type, a secret device for submerged defence, 2 large steamships like the ones serving in the voluntary fleet and a number of destroyers and gunboats.