RUSSIAN EMPIRE PHOTO OF SAILORS ON THE HOSPITAL SHIP MONGOLIA PORT ARTHUR 1904

Description

Very good condition, size 265 mm x 210 mm, 100% original.
Mongolia is a cargo-passenger steamer built in 1901 by order of the Steamship Company of the Sino-East Railway in Trieste at Stabilimento Tekniko Triestino.
February 15, 1904 in the port Dalniy steamer was mobilized in the 1 st Pacific Squadron and converted into a hospital ship for 160 beds with an operating room and X-ray room. The vessel was painted in accordance with the rules of the Hague Convention: freeboard, boats, kiln blocks, davits, ventilation sockets, chimneys, masts and cargo arrows - white, the case below the waterline is in red, the signs of the Red Cross are on board, the chimney , ventilation sockets from the inside. On the ship there were teams of the 6th and 7th mobile hospitals.
Was in Port Arthur during the siege of the fortress, accompanied the squadron during an attempt to break through the Yellow Sea on July 28, 1904. During the fighting, she stayed away from the battlefield, avoiding accidental shells. Was detained by the Japanese, examined and released in accordance with the rules of the Hague Convention. Returning to Port Arthur, until the end of the siege was on the internal roadstead, performing the functions of a floating hospital.