Service
Retvizan sailed for the Baltic Sea on 13 May 1902 and stopped to re-coal in Cherbourg, France en route. After leaving Cherbourg a boiler tube burst on 14 June, scalding six stokers, three of them fatally. After her arrival she was fitted with radio equipment and took part in a Naval Review in Reval staged for the State visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II in August. Later that month she tested an experimental system for coaling at sea; it was deemed successful, but her equipment was removed before she sailed for the Pacific. Retvizan departed on 13 November 1902 for the Far East in company with the battleship Pobeda and the cruisers Diana, Pallada and Bogatyr. She arrived at Port Arthur (now Lüshunkou), China on 4 May 1903 accompanied by only Pallada.
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