An item referred to a tiding dated 2 February of the British vice-consul at Vardo, Norway reporting that the Russian steamship Lomonosoff (1) was arrived coming from Murmansk, Soviet Union. On board were 2 British and 4 Belgian officers stating that at Murmansk the Bolshevik revolution broke out taking over the town and all shipping. Despite heavy fire the Lomonosoff managed to escape although her master was severely wounded. The mentioned officers claimed her as a price despite protests of Russian anti-Volshevik representatives in the United Kingdom. General Miller with a large number of refugees on board of the icebreaker Minin (2) fled from Arkhangelsk, Soviet Union and arrived safely at Tromsø, Norway. What happened with the 3 or four other icebreakers transporting refugees was yet unknown.
Notes
1. Or Lomonosov. Passenger cargo ship launched at the Walker shipyard of William Dobson&Co. on 27 December 1890, completed in March 1891 for account of the Archangel-Mourman Steam Navigation Co., Archangelsk, Russia, later several other owners, renamed Antissa in 1922 and Antalia in 1924 and broken up at Istanbul, Turkey in 1955.
2. The Kozma Minin launched with yard number 1020 on 29 August 1916 by Swan, Hunter&Wigham Richardson Ltd., Wallsend, interned by the French since 29 December 1920, purchased in 1922 and renamed Castor, converted into a minelayer, captured by Germany on 8 December 1942, as the FR-60 handed over Italy and scuttled at Bizerte, Tunisia on 6 May 1943, salvaged in 1946 and in or after 1947 broken up.
Source
The National Archives CAB-24-99-82. Weekly appreciation of matters of naval interest for the week ended 28th February 1920
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