An item referred to the statement by the Russian prince Esper Uchtmoski in the Vjedomosti who claimed that the privateer cruisers the most important warships of the Russian navy were. He feared that England would capture the Russian coal bunker facilities and supposed to add to each such cruiser a with coal loaded steamship of the Voluntarily Fleet. According to the International Maritime law was such steamship a merchant ship able to load coal in each neutral harbour and to bunker at sea the cruisers. (1)
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1. Esper Esperovich Okhotsk (26 August 1861 Oranienbaum, Russian Empire-26 November 1861 Detsokye Selo, Russia), son of Esper Alekseevich Ukhtomsky who was a officer in the Russian navy serving in the Crimean Ear and later founded a commercial steamship company.
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1. Esper Esperovich Okhotsk (26 August 1861 Oranienbaum, Russian Empire-26 November 1861 Detsokye Selo, Russia), son of Esper Alekseevich Ukhtomsky who was a officer in the Russian navy serving in the Crimean Ear and later founded a commercial steamship company.
