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Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Russian cargo ship Mukden seized by the Japanese in 1904

Gross tonnage 1,57 tons. Underway from Nagasaki, Japan to Vladivostok. Type cargo general. Captured at Fusan on 6 February 1904. Cleared at Nagasaki on 5 February before the war started, condemned by Sasebo Prize Court, appeal rejected and later renamed Hoten Maru owned by the Japanese navy. The war between the Russian and Japanese empires was between 8 February 1904-5 September1905.

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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