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Monday, 15 December 2025

Russian whaling transport Alexandr seized by the Japanese in 1904

Gross tonnage 261 tons. Underway fishing. Type cargo provisions. Captured at Idzuhara on 10 February 1904. Condemned on final appeal. Afterwards as the Rekisan 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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