The Imperial Russian Navy travels a long way from Baltic sea.
Althought their number is superior, they are in big difference in range and speed. Only 4 are modern ships.
The seaman lacks training ( most of them are rural farmers ) that have not seen any machinery before.
The fatal mistake was they had a bad maneveur (due to lack of co-ordinated training, they sail for sometime in double column formation) at the start effectively reducing their fire power by half.
