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WAR APPENDIX

Name and Kind of Vessel Displacement Date of Sinking
1904
Ansei Maru, sailing ship 105 June16
Seiyei Maru, sailing ship ? 100 "16
Seisho Maru, sailing ship 122 " 30
Koun Maru, steamer 57 " 30
Kita Maru, sailing ship 140 July 19
Takashima Maru, steamer 318 " 20
Hokusei Maru, sailing ship 91 " 20
Fukuju Maru, sailing ship 121 " 24
Jizai Maru, sailing ship 199 " 24
Hakutsu Maru, sailing ship 91 " 24

Those 15 ships have an average of 234 tons, a figure sufficiently suggestive of the nature of the craft upon which the Russian cruisers preyed. The list must be supplemented by a number of little fishing boats, some driven by stress of weather upon Russian coasts, but all with one exception destroyed. There are 12 of these boats recorded, but others are believed to have shared their fate:

Name and place of Register Fate
Chotoku Maru, Hakodate Unknown
Ryozen Maru, Hakodate "
Kaichi Maru, Noto Burned
Kifuku Maru, Kaga "
Sumiyoshi Maru, Hakodate "
Chosho Maru, Tokio "
Yeisho Maru, Tokio "
Yeihu Maru, Tokio "
Yeiju Maru, Tokio "
Kaikei Maru, Totomi "
Kwantsu Maru, Totomi "
Kayetsu Maru, Hakodate Captured

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