Nominal Gun Weight of Name Displacement I.H.P. Speed Protection Broadside Fire Tons Knots. In. Lbs. Bogatyr 6,750 19,500 23.0 5--4 872 Askold 6,500 9,500 23.0 -- 772 Varyag 6,500 20,000 23.0 5 510 Diana 6,630 11,600 20.0 4-1/2 632 Pallada 6,630 11,600 20.0 4-1/2 632 Boyarin 3,200 11,500 22.0 -- 180 Novik 3,000 18,000 25.0 -- 180 ARMORED CRUISERS. Nominal Gun Weight of Name Displacement I.H.P. Speed Protection Broadside Fire Tons Knots. In. Lbs. Gromoboi 12,336 18,000 20.0 6--3/4 1,197 Bayan 7,800 17,000 22.0 7--3 952 Rossia 12,200 18,000 20.0 2 1,348 Rurik 10,940 3,500 18.0 3 1,345 [Sidenote: Japan's Superiority] Though nominally the fleets of the two Powers were fairly equal, Japan possessed several very considerable advantages which, in the opinion of experts, changed that paper equality to marked superiority on her side. In the first place, the Chino-Japanese war only ten years ago had given her naval officers and men an invaluable experience of fighting on the grand scale under modern conditions; in the next place, their fleet was much more of a pattern; and in the third place it was operating from a base fully capable of providing all the needs and reinforcements entailed by losses in war, including a ready coal supply. [Sidenote: Russia's Harbors]