RUSSIAN DESTROYER MINED
ELEVEN OF CREW SAVED. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Sept. 28. A Russian official message reports that the destroyer Okotnik -was mined off Oesel Island, at the entrance to the Gulf iof Riga. Eleven of her crew were saved.
[ The Okotnik was a destroyer of the ' Kondratenko type, of 625 tons displacement, developing 7300-h.p., and with a speed of 26 knots. She was armed with two 4.7 in guns and 6 six-pounders, had three torpedo lubes and earned a crew of 100.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16658, 1 October 1917, Page 5
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