Stand for a turn!

The Balkan War of 1877–78 did not end with the San Stephen world offensive for Russia. The troops of the White General Skobelev are part of Constantinople, in response, Britain sends his squadrons to the Bosphorus and to the Baltic.
Russian tower gunboats and mine boats - against the formidable battleships of the royal navy. Forters of Kronstadt and Sveaborg - against the guns of Armstrong and Videt. Furious sea battles, the success of which is solved by ram, mines and ... very large guns. And somewhere in other people"s latitudes, Russian military clippers, like a hound down from leashes, broke out on trade routes-the ocean hunt began! Will Britain remain the mistress of the seas?
And against the background of these grandiose events-the history of the young midshipman, a graduate of the St. Petersburg Marine Corps, who received his first appointment to the Baltic Monitor "Sagittarius". On it, he will accept his main battle