An item reported that the Russian cruiser Warjag being built by Cramp, Philadelphia, USA was to be fitted out with 30 Niclausse boilers with a total grating surface of 148,36 square metres and a heating surface of 5.763 square metres to delivered during the 12 hours trial an horsepower of 20.000 ehp. Displacement around 6.500 tons and as dimensions 122 x 15 x 6 metres.(1)
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1. Laid down in October 1899 as the protected cruiser Varyag by William Cramp&Sons, launched on 31 October 1899, commissioned on 2 January 1901 and scuttled by her crew on 9 February 1904. Salvaged by Japan and commissioned on 9 July 1907 in the Japanese navy was she returned to Russia on 5 April 1916, seized by England on 8 December 1917, assigned to the Royal British Navy in February 1918, hulk until 1919, sold to a German firm to be broken up in 1920, run underway to Germany aground off Lendalfoot, Scotland in 1920 and finally broken up en situ in 1923-1925.
