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Identifier: heresiesofseapow00jane (find matches)
Title: Heresies of sea power
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Jane, Fred T. (Frederick Thomas), 1865-1916
Subjects: Sea-power Naval history War
Publisher: London, New York and Bombay : Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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r, a dangerous place to lie in, but necessi-tated by the fact that the Port Arthur entrance wasso small and the fleet so inefficient that it had to collectoutside because it could not emerge on a single tide.War had been officially declared about six oclock onthe evening of the 8th, but this information was (soit is said) suppressed by Admiral Alexieff, and manyRussian officers were on shore. Only one Russianship, the cruiser Bayan, appears to have been in anyway prepared for war. Owing to mishaps incidental to torpedo attacks,only one division of Japanese destroyers delivered anattack. Two first-class battleships and one cruiserwere hit, and the surprise was so complete that theRussians never even fired till the Japanese boats weregone. It now seems established that the surprise waseffected through the Japanese destroyers being takenfor Russian boats—Russian signals being imitated, aperfectly legitimate war ruse concerning which theRussians subsequently protested very unreasonably.
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PORT ARTHUR, DIVIDED INTO SQUARES OF ONE SEA MILE. THE EUSSO-JAPANESE WAR 91 On the following morning Togos main fleet appeared,and a desultory battle, chiefly remarkable for the badshooting on both sides, followed. The Russians weresupported by their land batteries, and it appears thatsuch slight advantage as there was rested with them.The Iwate was very badly hit, and so were one or twobattleships, chiefly from the fire of the forts. TheRussian cruiser Novik got within torpedo range ofTogos flagship, the Mikasa, and missed her only byextraordinary bad luck for Russia or good luck forJapan. Most of the damage by ship fire was inflictedby the Bayan, and practically Captains Wiren and VonEssen of the Bayan and Novik fought the battle. As,counting the shore defences, Russia had the advantageon her side, her fleet, had it been properly handled,ought to have done far more than it did. After this engagement nothing of any great im-portance happened for some while. The Japaneseexpended many

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