"Two special service ships, Kamchatka and three destroyers also sunk.
"Two battleships, Orel and Imperator, Nicolai I; two coast defence ships, General Admiral Apraxine and Admiral Senyanvin, and one destroyer, Biedovoy, captured.
"Thus Russians lost altogether twenty-two ships, the aggregate tonnage whereof amounting to 153,411 tons, besides cruiser Almaz, suspected to have sunk.
"Later reports from the different divisions of the fleet engaged in the naval battle of May 27 show as follows:
Havoc Among Battleships
"The Russian battleship Oslabya was heavily damaged in the early part of the fight on Saturday, going down at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
"The first Russian vessel sunk was the battleship Sissoi Veliky.
"The armored cruisers Admiral Nakhimoff and Vladimir Monomach, after being in the general engagement during the daytime, were still further damaged by torpedoes during attacks by night, and were eventually completely disabled. They drifted into the vicinity of Tsu Islands, where they were discovered on Sunday morning, May 28, by the auxiliary cruisers Shilano, Yawata, Tainan and Sado, which were about to capture them, but they all sank.
"The crews of our auxiliary cruisers rescued 915 of the crew of the sunken Russian ships.
"The battleship Navarin was torpedoed four times after sundown on Saturday, May 27, and sunk. The survivors of the Navarin's crew confirm the story of her destruction.