The Russian armored cruiser Bayan was sunk in a fight near the entrance to the Gulf of Finland.

The Pallada had a displacement of 7,775 tons and was a sister ship of the Admiral Makarov and Bayan.

"But in place o' that he steps in saftly, wi' the poker pointed like a swoord, and he gies it a poke, and down it a' tumbles together, head and a', in a heap o' bayans and dust, little meyar an' a hatful.

"'Twas the bayans o' a child; a' the rest went to dust at a touch.

The clothes, at the first touch, a' ran into a snuff o' dust in the cell whar the bayans was found.

There on the walls were the great frescoes of Bayan y Maella, representing the works and great deeds of Saint Eulogio, his preaching in the land of the Moors, and the cruelties of the infidels, who, with big turbans and enormous whiskers, were beating the saint.