An item reported that Sevastopol, Crimea was evacuated on 14 November and allready arrived 58,000 refugees [White Russians] Constantinople, Turkey with possible another 15,0000 underway. Later was reported that around 120,000 refugees transported with 73 ships arrived at Constantinople. There were none British ships involved in the Russian evacuation. The ships at Moda were so overcrowded that there was no place to sit of lay down but everyone had to stand the whole day and night. In the meantime also Russian warships arrived at Constantinople, which was not known except for the arrival on 18 November by general Wrangel (1) on board of the cruiser General Korniloff.(2)
Notes
1. Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangler (15/27 August 1878 Novalexandrovsk, Russian Emoire-25 April 1928, Brussels, Belgium), commander-in-chief pf the Armed Forces of South Russia 1920-1921
2. Part of the Bogatyr-class protected cruisers, preceded by Askold, succeeded by Novik, laid down by Sevastopol dockyard, Crimea as Kagul in 1900, launched in October 1902, completed in 1905, renamed Ochakov, later Genreal Kornilov, internet at Bizerta, French Tunisia in 1920 and sold to be broken up in 1933.
Source
The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB-24-115-34
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