Battle of Tsushima
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The Battle of Tsushima was the final naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought on 27–28 May 1905 in the Tsushima Strait. A devastating defeat for the Imperial Russian Navy, the battle was the onl
Painting of the battle by Tōjō Shōtarō, 1905
Departure of the Japanese Combined Fleet in the morning of 27 May 1905
Russian battleship Oslyabya, the first warship sunk in the battle
Damaged Oryol at Maizuru Naval Arsenal
Japanese battleship Mikasa
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Mikasa is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1890s, and is the only ship of her class. Named after Mount Mikasa in Nara, Japan, the ship served as the flagsh
Battle of Tsushima
…to repelling the invading Kōryō (Mongol) fleets in 1274 (770 ships) and 1281 (900 ships). Admiral Tōgō was revered as a national hero. His flagship Mikasa has been preserved as a museum ship in Yokosuka Harbour. On 8 February 1904, destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the…
Mikasa in Yokosuka, Japan, 2021
Turret layout for original 12-inch (305 mm) 40-calibre guns
Mikasa as she appeared in 1905
The new 45-calibre 12-inch guns added during the reconstruction