Russian cargo ship Manchuria seized by the Japanese in 1904

Gross tonnage 6, 193 tons. Of the East Asiatic Company. Underway from the Baltic to Port Arthur. Type cargo military stores etc. Captured near Port Arthur on 9 February 2004. Condemned on final appeal. The war between the Russian and Japanese empires was between 8 February 1904-5 September1905.

Note

1. Became the Japanese Kanto Maru. Built by Burmeister&Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark with yard number 210 in 1900.

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.