An engineer aboard the flagship Suvorov writes home as Admiral Rozhestvensky’s Baltic Fleet sails for the Far East. His letters cover the Dogger Bank incident, when Russian ships fired on British trawlers, the long coaling stops off Africa and at Madagascar, Japanese spies on board, and the growing sense that the fleet was steaming toward disaster at Tsushima.
A moving first-hand record of one of the strangest naval voyages in history. Download the free EPUB.