RUSSIAN PROTECTED CRUISER ASKOLD (1904)

"Askold - Built 1900, displacement 6,500 tons, length 426 1/2 feet, beam 49 feet, depth 19 3/4 feet, armament 12 6-inch, 12 3-inch, 10 various small caliber machine guns, torpedo tubes, 2 submerged, 2 above water, armor 2-inch deck, speed 23 knots."
From page 2 of The Tacoma Times, Vol. 1, No. 11, Friday, January 1, 1904.