The Russian battleship Orel is transformed into a hospital ship in 1904 Toulon. 
The room and the operating table. 
One dormitory rooms the hospital ship . 
Gutter Auffret ( sic) that allows the injured to take the air on deck. Photos Bougault for Life Ad
Thank Marc Hoffmann (Artop ) who kindly sent this document.
The strange story of Orel in the Battle of Tsushima in 1905
the night of 26, the quarantine of Russian ships juts into the Strait of Tsushima . the hospital ship Orel was lighted in accordance with international law (and the code of the Red Cross ), which allowed a Japanese vessel to locate the Russian squadron just before sunrise , around 4 pm 45. But this is
that to 14 pm the Russian battleship Souvaroff opened fire. The Japanese respond with fire more accurate and intense. Within an hour the Russian battleship Oslabia was sunk. At night, the Russians had lost half of their battleships. Under cover of darkness, a massacre by Japanese destroyers. At dawn, the Russians had only five ships capable of fighting, surrounded by 27 Japanese ships. Nebogatoff (who had replaced Rozhestvenskii wounded on Souvaroff ) decided to surrender. 26 Russian ships were sunk, six made by the Japanese (whose hospital ship Orel *), six others sought refuge in neutral ports and three managed to join the Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok .
During the Battle of Tsushima , Orel was hit by five rounds of 300mm, 250mm 2, 9 200mm, 28 150mm. After the battle, the Orel joined the group badly damaged naval cons Admiral Nikolai Ivanovich Nebogatov , crews belonging Vessels of war in this group (the battleships Orel , Emperor Nicolas I. , General Admiral Apraxine , Admiral Senyavine and the cruiser Izumud ) were held captive. * The
Russian hospital ship Orel was convicted by a Japanese prize court for having transported prisoners of war and military equipment.
