The Nevsky shipbuilding yard received an order for twelve 350 tons displacement torpedo boat destroyers based on the designs of the torpedo boat destroyers built by Yarrow and Company, Poplar, for the Japanese Government. According to a Times correspondent in St Petersburg, the Nevsky yards were already building ten Sokol type boats, and another two were being built at Abo, Finland. The Russian Admiralty had also decided to replace all Du Temple boilers in their first-class torpedo boats with Yarrow water-tube boilers.