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Excerpt from The Log of Sutlej, Pacific and China Stations, 1904-1906
ON the morning of October 22nd, 1904, intense excitement prevailed in England when it was learned that, the night before, the Russian Baltic Fleet (then at war with the Japanese) had fired continuously for twenty minutes on a North Sea fishing-fleet, sink ing two of the trawlers and killing and wound ing a number of the crews, which caused the hurried commission of one or two battleships and cruisers, including the Sutlej (which ship I was drafted to); and in the following pages I will try to describe this short commis sion and then her te-commissioning at Ports mouth for service on the China Station to relieve h.m.s. Leviathan, at the same time giving an account Of the principal events.
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