Martin Antonenko
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In Four Wars ...
On May 24, 1900, the cruiser "Awrora" (= "Aurora" / Dawn) was launched at the "Baltic Shipyard" in Saint Petersburg...:
"Awrora" is - after the structurally identical cruisers "Diana" ...
... and „Pallada“ ...
... the third ship of the so-called "Pallada class", which was designed and built in Russia to strengthen the fleet. The cruisers should be able to do tasks in the Baltic Merer as well as operate worldwide, especially in the Far East.
The ship is - even if this is written over and over again - not an "armored cruiser", but a "1st rank cruiser", as it only has an armored deck...
... and some belt armor at the level of the waterline (so grenade hits cannot hit the lower ones Puncture rooms!) And a light armor of the command tower and the gun shields.
"Awrora" is assigned to the Pacific squadron in Port Arthur, in which the sister ships "Pallada" and "Diana" have been stationed since April 1903.
At the time the war between Russia and Japan broke out, the cruisers "Dmitri Donskoj" and "Avrora" with four torpedo boats of the Buinyi class were in Djibouti.
The next picture shows the cruiser in the roadstead in front of Djibouti in tropical paint with a white hull and yellow chimneys with black caps ...:
The Russian naval command decides to order the unit back into the Baltic Sea, where it arrives on February 29, 1904.
When the Pacific fleet is blocked by the Japanese in Port Arthur, the Admiralty "Awrora" divides the Russian relief squadron (so-called "2nd Pacific Squadron") under Admiral Sinowij Petrowitsch Roshdestwenskij ...
... to, which should drive halfway around the world from the Baltic Sea and unblock Port Arthur.
Now the ship is back in the traditional Russian warship paint scheme: hull and superstructure black over everything and yellow funnels with black caps.
Already in the North Sea the “Dogger Bank incident” occurs, in which the Russian fleet mistaken British fishing boats for Japanese torpedo boats at night and shoots them - and, in the confusion, also at each other...:
On board the "Awrora", which was hit by a few projectiles, the ship's pope Ljubomudrow dies.
In the naval battle of Tsushima (which I will come to as part of these anniversaries!) on May 27 and 28, 1905, "Awrora" was badly damaged ...
... the commander, captain 1st rank Jewgenij Petrowitsch Jegorjew ...
... falls through a direct hit in the command tower...
... 15 other crew members are killed and 83 are injured.
The ship is only supported by the ship's electrician Andrej Podlesnij ...
... rescued who with his presence of mind throws a Japanese dud that lands right next to the riot ammunition overboard.
"Awrora" manages to escape in the neutral US port of Manila, where she is interned on the orders of the tsar.
**continued next post**
On May 24, 1900, the cruiser "Awrora" (= "Aurora" / Dawn) was launched at the "Baltic Shipyard" in Saint Petersburg...:
"Awrora" is - after the structurally identical cruisers "Diana" ...
... and „Pallada“ ...
... the third ship of the so-called "Pallada class", which was designed and built in Russia to strengthen the fleet. The cruisers should be able to do tasks in the Baltic Merer as well as operate worldwide, especially in the Far East.
The ship is - even if this is written over and over again - not an "armored cruiser", but a "1st rank cruiser", as it only has an armored deck...
... and some belt armor at the level of the waterline (so grenade hits cannot hit the lower ones Puncture rooms!) And a light armor of the command tower and the gun shields.
"Awrora" is assigned to the Pacific squadron in Port Arthur, in which the sister ships "Pallada" and "Diana" have been stationed since April 1903.
At the time the war between Russia and Japan broke out, the cruisers "Dmitri Donskoj" and "Avrora" with four torpedo boats of the Buinyi class were in Djibouti.
The next picture shows the cruiser in the roadstead in front of Djibouti in tropical paint with a white hull and yellow chimneys with black caps ...:
The Russian naval command decides to order the unit back into the Baltic Sea, where it arrives on February 29, 1904.
When the Pacific fleet is blocked by the Japanese in Port Arthur, the Admiralty "Awrora" divides the Russian relief squadron (so-called "2nd Pacific Squadron") under Admiral Sinowij Petrowitsch Roshdestwenskij ...
... to, which should drive halfway around the world from the Baltic Sea and unblock Port Arthur.
Now the ship is back in the traditional Russian warship paint scheme: hull and superstructure black over everything and yellow funnels with black caps.
Already in the North Sea the “Dogger Bank incident” occurs, in which the Russian fleet mistaken British fishing boats for Japanese torpedo boats at night and shoots them - and, in the confusion, also at each other...:
On board the "Awrora", which was hit by a few projectiles, the ship's pope Ljubomudrow dies.
In the naval battle of Tsushima (which I will come to as part of these anniversaries!) on May 27 and 28, 1905, "Awrora" was badly damaged ...
... the commander, captain 1st rank Jewgenij Petrowitsch Jegorjew ...
... falls through a direct hit in the command tower...
... 15 other crew members are killed and 83 are injured.
The ship is only supported by the ship's electrician Andrej Podlesnij ...
... rescued who with his presence of mind throws a Japanese dud that lands right next to the riot ammunition overboard.
"Awrora" manages to escape in the neutral US port of Manila, where she is interned on the orders of the tsar.
**continued next post**
