This newspaper was able to supply some more background details dealing with the mutiny on board of the Pamjat Azowa (1) in the night of 2 August. She was lying at that moment in the Bay of Papenwiek, around 40 miles west of Reval. She was then accompanied by the small cruisers Abrek and Wojewoda, the training ship Woin, the destroyer Sostpyesniy and the torpedo boats no.’s 106 en 107/ When the mutineers controlled the Pamjat steamed with the Pamjat Azowa towards Reval ordering the other ships to follow them. The officers and loyal sailors however refused with at result that the Pamjat shot at them, lucky without any hits.
The small cruiser Abrek was beached but later by loyal sailors salvaged and was now anchored in the mouth of the Narowa. The torpedo boat no. 6 fled. When the Pamjat Azowa left the scene returned the crews of the other ships as far as they fled on shore and brought their ships to Reval where a navy commission inspected the ships and concluded that these were all undamaged.
Note
1. Laid down in 1886 at the yard of the Baltic Works at St. Petersburg, launched on 1 July two years later and again two years later commissioned. In 1909 she was reclassified as torpedo school ship and at the same time renamed Divina. On 18 August 1919 sunk by the British torpedo boat CMB 79 while she was lying in the harbour of Kronstadt. Her remains are afterwards salvaged and broken up. This armoured cruiser was designed to be used as a commerce raider and was also rigged to obtain a larger range. With a displacement of 6,674 tons were her dimensions 117,9 x 17,22 x 8,18 metres or 384’6”x 56’6” x 26’10”. Originally fitted out with two vertical triple expansion engines and 6 cylindrical boilers (the boilers were replaced by 18 Belleville boilers in 1904 and since then she had 5,664 ihp) supplying 8,500 ihp allowing a speed of 17 knots with a coal bunker capacity of 1,200 tons. Her crew numbered 640 men. The armament consisted of 2-18” guns, 13-16’ guns, 4-47mm guns, 8-37mm guns and 3-15’ torpedo tubes. The armament consisted of a 4-6”belt and a 2.5” deck, while the guns were protected by 2”shield and the conning tower by 1.5” thick armour.
