Photos of the Zhemchug and Izumrud are very rare, but I have one of each. This is Zhemchug dressed in Rhozdventsky's colour scheme of black hull and canary yellow funnels with black caps. It must date it between October 1904 and May 1905.Zhemchug fled with Enkvist to Manila after Tsushima to be interned by the Americans. It remained in the Far East till the 1st World War.
Zhemchug joined the hunt for the German raider SMS Emden in the Indian Ocean during October/December 1914. She was at Penang when the Emden slipped in disguised as a British cruiser. Zhemchug barely got off a shot before she was demolished by several German salvos and a torpedo from the Emden's midships underwater tube.
Her Captain was tried for negligence and given three years in the slammer.
Don
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