Port Arthur. Launched at Clydebank, Scotland in 1898. Displacement 12,050 tons. Horsepower 16,800 ihp. Speed 20 knots. Coal bunker capacity 1,583 tons. Under Red Cross. Former Volunteer steamship Moskva. The war between the Russian and Japanese empires was between 8 February 1904-5 September 1905. Battle Liao-Yang 23 August-5 September 1904, Battle Sha-Ho 5-18 October 1904 and surrender Port Arthur 2 January 1905.
Source
Official history (Naval and Military) of the Russo-Japanese War. Vol. II. Liao Yang, the Sha Ho, Port Arthur. Prepared by the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. London, 1912.
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