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Tsushima-Tribute to the Russian Fleet

Tsushima-Tribute to the Russian Fleet

The Battle of Tsushima (Japanese: 対馬海戦, tsushima-kaisen, Russian: Цусимское сражение, Tsusimskoye srazheniye), commonly known as the Sea of Japan Naval Battle (Japanese: 日本海海戦, nihonkai-kaisen) in Japan and the Battle of Tsushima Strait elsewhere, was the last and most decisive sea battle of the Russo-Japanese War of 19041905. It was fought on May 2728, 1905 (May 1415 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia) in the Tsushima Strait. In this battle the Japanese fleet under Admiral Heihachiro Togo destroyed two-thirds of the Russian fleet under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky. Historian Edmund Morris calls it the greatest naval battle since Trafalgar.[1] It was the largest naval engagement of the pre-dreadnought battleship era.

The Battle of Tsushima was the only sea battle in history in which steel battleships fought a decisive fleet action. In addition, much to the Russian Navy's credit, Admiral Rozhestvensky's battleship fleet conducted a voyage of over 18,000 nautical miles (33,000 km) to reach the Far East.


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