Vekha was a military transport ship of the Black Sea Fleet that briefly joined the Potemkin mutiny. It was commanded by a colonel, Baron P P Eikhen.[1] On 15th/28th June (second day of the mutiny), the Vekha approached Odessa where the mutineers were burying their martyred hero Vakulenchuk. Eikhen was unaware of the mutiny so he obeyed a semaphore message telling him to come aboard. 15 armed sailors arrested him, he dropped his sabre and was locked up with the officers. The remaining two officers and the doctor were signaled to come aboard, after their arrest the Vekha was ordered to stay by the battleship. The revolutionaries then took it over easily. It's 60 sailors pleaded successfully for the officers' lives, they were set ashore with the others in Odessa. The Vekha abandoned the mutineers after the battleship Georgii Pobedonosets did the same on the evening of 18 June/July 1.[2]