Cruiser Zhemchug (Russian: Жемчуг, “Pearl”) was the second of the two-vessel Izumrud class of protected cruisers built for the Imperial Russian Navy. She was at the Battle of Tsushima, where she survived. She was sunk during World War I by the German light cruiser Emden in the Battle of Penang.
Russian cruiser Zhemchug.
A veteran of the Russo-Japanese war, she would survive into World War I, when attached with the British Asiatic Fleet in Penang and a few French ships they were set upon in a surprise raid and sunk by the German cruiser SMS Emden on 28 October 1914.




