Russian torpedo boat Leitenant Pushhchin lost according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 13 March 1916

An item dated Petrograd 12 March reported that on the 9^th two Russian torpedo boats on reconnaissance near Warna were attacked by submarines of the enemy. The torpedo boat Luitenant Poestsjin was blown up. A part of her crew was saved by the second torpedo boat.(1)

Note

Conway’s All the World’s fighting ships 1906-1921 calls her Leitenant Pushchin, destroyer of the Z-Zh-class and which was lost while striking on 10 March 1916 a mine off Varna. She was the former Zadorni launched in November 1904 and renamed on 8 April 1907.