Order of battle at the Battle of Tsushima
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This is the order of battle of the Japanese and Russian fleets at the Battle of Tsushima on 27–28 May 1905.
Japanese Combined Fleet
[edit]Source: "Combined Fleet Command for Battle of Tsushima" Japanese version Wikipedia[1]
First Squadron
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![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Japanese_battleship_Mikasa.jpg/380px-Japanese_battleship_Mikasa.jpg)
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Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō in Mikasa
- First Division
- Vice Admiral Misu Sōtarō in Nisshin
- 4 pre-Dreadnought battleships (all 4 × 12-inch (305 mm), 18 knots)
- 1 Formidable-class variant
- Mikasa (Capt. Ijichi Hikojirō)
- 2 Shikishima-class
- Shikishima (Capt. Teragaki Izō)
- Asahi[a] (variant) (Capt. Nomoto Tsunaaki)
- 1 Fuji-class
- Fuji (Capt. Matsumoto Kazu)
- 1 Formidable-class variant
- 2 armored cruisers: both Giuseppe Garibaldi-class variants
- Kasuga (Capt. Katō Sadakichi)
- (forward: 1 × 10-inch (254 mm), aft: 2 × 8-inch (203 mm), 20 knots)
- Nisshin (Capt. Takenouchi Heitarō)
- (4 × 8-inch (203 mm), 20 knots)
- Kasuga (Capt. Katō Sadakichi)
- 1 dispatch vessel (2 × quick-firing 4.7-inch (120 mm), 21 knots)
- Tatsuta (Cmdr. Yamagata Bunzō)
- 4 pre-Dreadnought battleships (all 4 × 12-inch (305 mm), 18 knots)
- Third Division
- Vice Admiral Dewa Shigetō in Kasagi
- 4 protected cruisers
- 2 Kasagi-class (2 × 8-inch (203 mm), 22.5 knots)
- Kasagi (Capt. Yamaya Tanin)
- Chitose (Capt. Takagi Sukekazu)
- 2 Niitaka-class (6 × quick-firing 6-inch (152 mm), 20 knots)
- Niitaka (Capt. Shōji Yoshimoto)
- Otowa (Capt. Arima Ryōkitsu)
- 2 Kasagi-class (2 × 8-inch (203 mm), 22.5 knots)
- 4 protected cruisers
- First Destroyer Division
- Captain Fujimoto Shūshirō
- 4 Harusame-class destroyers (1 × quick-firing 12-pounder, 29 knots)
- Harusame (1902) (Capt. Fujimoto)
- Fubuki (1905) (Lt. Tōjima Otsukichirō)
- Ariake (1904) (Lt. Cmdr. Kutsumi Tsuneo)
- Arare (1904) (Lt. Watanabe Shingo)
- 1 ex-Russian destroyer Reshitel'nyi (1 × 3-inch (75 mm), 25.75 knots)
- Akatsuki (1904)[b] (Lt. Harada Shōsaku)
- 4 Harusame-class destroyers (1 × quick-firing 12-pounder, 29 knots)
- Second Destroyer Division
- Captain Yajima Junkichi in Oboro
- 4 Ikazuchi-class destroyers (1 × quick-firing 12-pounder, 30 knots)
- Oboro (1899) (Lt. Fujiwara Eisaburō)
- Inazuma (1899) (Lt. Cmdr. Suga Tetsuichirō)
- Ikazuchi (1898) (Lt. Cmdr. Saitō Hanroku)
- Akebono (1899) (Lt. Yamanouchi Shirō)
- 4 Ikazuchi-class destroyers (1 × quick-firing 12-pounder, 30 knots)
- Third Destroyer Division
- Captain Yoshijima Jyūtarō in Shinonome
- 4 destroyers
- 2 Shinonome-class (1 × quick-firing 12-pounder, 30 knots)
- 1 Akatsuki-class (1 × quick-firing 12-pounder, 30 knots)
- Kasumi (Lt. Cmdr. Shiraishi Naosuke)
- 1 Ikazuchi-class (1 × quick-firing 12-pounder, 30 knots)
- Sazanami (Lt. Cmdr. Aiba Tsunezō)
- 4 destroyers
- 14th Torpedo-Boat Division
- Lieut. Commander Seki Shigetaka
- 4 Hayabusa-class torpedo boats (3 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes, 29 knots)
- Chidori (1901) (Lt. Cmdr. Seki)
- Hayabusa (1899) (Lt. Ebihara Keiichi)
- Manazuru (1900) (Lt. Tamaoka Yoshirō)
- Hashitaka (1903) (Lt. Miyamoto Matsutarō)
- 4 Hayabusa-class torpedo boats (3 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes, 29 knots)
Second Squadron
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Vice Admiral Kamimura Hikonojō in armored cruiser Izumo
- Second Division
- Rear Admiral Shimamura Hayao in armored cruiser Iwate
- 4 armored cruisers
- 2 Izumo-class (4 × 8-inch (203 mm), 20.75 knots)
- 2 Asama-class (4 × 8-inch (203 mm), 21 knots)
- Asama (Capt. Yashiro Rokurō)
- Tokiwa[e] (Capt. Shigetarō Yoshimatsu
- 1 armored cruiser (4 × 8-inch (203 mm), 21 knots)
- Azuma (Capt. Murakami Kakuichi)
- 1 armored cruiser (4 × 8-inch (203 mm), 20 knots)
- Yakumo (Capt. Matsumoto Arinobu)
- 1 dispatch vessel (2 × quick-firing 4.7-inch (120 mm), 21 knots)
- Chihaya (Cmdr. Eguchi Rinroku)
- 4 armored cruisers
- Fourth Division
- Vice Admiral Uryū Sotokichi in Naniwa
- 4 protected cruisers
- 2 Naniwa-class (2 × 10.2-inch (260 mm), 18 knots)
- 1 Suma-class (2 × quick-firing 6-inch (152 mm), 20 knots)
- Akashi (Capt. Ushiki Kōshirō)
- 1 Niitaka-class (6 × quick-firing 6-inch (152 mm), 20 knots)
- Tsushima (Capt. Sentō Takenaka)
- 4 protected cruisers
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- Fourth Destroyer Division
- Commander Suzuki Kantarō in Asagiri
- 2 Harusame-class destroyers (1 × quick-firing 12-pounder, 29 knots)
- Asagiri (1903) (Lt. Iida Nobutarō)
- Murasame (1902) (Lt. Cmdr. Kobayashi Kenzō)
- 2 Shirakumo-class destroyers (1 × quick-firing 12-pounder, 31 knots)
- 2 Harusame-class destroyers (1 × quick-firing 12-pounder, 29 knots)
- Fifth Destroyer Division
- Commander Hirose Juntarō in Shiranui
- 4 Murakumo-class destroyers (1 × quick-firing 12-pounder, 30 knots)
- 9th Torpedo-Boat Division
- Commander Kawase Hayaharu
- 4 Hayabusa-class torpedo boats (1 × 2.2-inch (57 mm), 29 knots)
- Aotaka (1903) (Cmdr. Kawase)
- Kari (1903) (Lt. Awaya Gazō)
- Tsubame (1903) (Lt. Tajiri Yuiji)
- Hato (1903) (Lt. Iguchi Daijirō)
- 4 Hayabusa-class torpedo boats (1 × 2.2-inch (57 mm), 29 knots)
- 19th Torpedo-Boat Division
- Commander Matsuoka Shūzō
- 3 Hayabusa-class torpedo boats (1 × 2.2-inch (57 mm), 29 knots)
- Kamome (1904) (Cmdr. Matsuoka)
- Ootori (1904) (Lt. Ōtani Kōshirō)
- Kiji (1903)[f] (Lt. Kanzai Uemon)
- 3 Hayabusa-class torpedo boats (1 × 2.2-inch (57 mm), 29 knots)
Third Squadron
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Vice Admiral Kataoka Shichirō in protected cruiser Itsukushima
- Fifth Division
- Rear Admiral Taketomi Kunikane in Hashidate
- 3 Matsushima-class protected cruisers (1 × 12.6-inch (320 mm) (Canet gun), 16.5 knots)
- Itsukushima (Capt. Tsuchiya Tamotsu)
- Hashidate (Capt. Fukui Masayoshi)
- Matsushima (Capt. Okumiya Mamoru)
- 1 ex-Chinese turret ship (rebuilt) Zhenyuan (4 × 12-inch (305 mm), 15.4 knots)
- Chin'en (Capt. Imai Kanemasa)
- 1 dispatch vessel (4 × quick-firing 4.7-inch (120 mm), 20.75 knots)
- Yaeyama (Cmdr. Nishiyama Sanechika)
- 3 Matsushima-class protected cruisers (1 × 12.6-inch (320 mm) (Canet gun), 16.5 knots)
- Sixth Division
- Rear Admiral Tōgō Masamichi in Suma
- 1 Suma-class protected cruiser (2 × quick-firing 6-inch (152 mm), 20 knots)
- Suma (Capt. Tochiuchi Sōjirō)
- 1 protected cruiser (10 × quick-firing 4.7-inch (120 mm), 19 knots)
- Chiyoda (Capt. Higashifushimi Yorihito)
- 2 2nd class protected cruisers
- Akitsushima (Capt. Hirose Katsuhiko)
- Izumi (ex-Chilean cruiser Esmeralda) (Capt. Ishida Ichirō)
- 1 Suma-class protected cruiser (2 × quick-firing 6-inch (152 mm), 20 knots)
- Seventh Division
- Rear Admiral Yamada Hikohachi in Fusō
- 15th Torpedo-Boat Division
- Lieut. Commander Kondō Tsunematsu
- 4 Hayabusa-class torpedo boats (3 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes, 29 knots)
- Hibari (1903) (Lt. Cmdr. Kondō)
- Sagi (1903) (Lt. Yokoo Nao)
- Hashitaka (1903) (Lt. Mori Shunzō)
- Uzura (1904) (Lt. Suzuki Ujimasa)
- 4 Hayabusa-class torpedo boats (3 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes, 29 knots)
- 10th Torpedo-Boat Division
- Lieut. Commander Ōtaki Michisuke
- No. 43 (1900) (Lt. Cmdr. Ōtaki)
- No. 40 (1901) (Sub-Lt. Nakahara Yahei)
- No. 41 (1901) (Lt. Mizuno Hironori)
- No. 39 (1900) (Lt. Ōgane Minoru)
- 11th Torpedo-Boat Division
- Lieut. Commander Fujimoto Umejirō
- No. 73 (1903) (Lt. Cmdr. Fujimoto)
- No. 72 (1903) (Lt. Sasao Gennojō)
- No. 74 (1903) (Lt. Ōtawara Tōru)
- No. 75 (1903) (Lt. Kawai Taizō)
- 20th Torpedo-Boat Division
- Lieut. Commander Kubo Kimata
- No. 65 (1902) (Lt. Cmdr. Kubo)
- No. 62 (1902) (Lt. Tona Genzaburō)
- No. 64 (1902) (Lt. Tominaga Torajirō)
- No. 63 (1902) (Lt. Eguchi Kinma)
- 1st Torpedo-Boat Division
- Lieut. Commander Fukuda Masateru
- No. 69 (1903) (Lt. Cmdr. Fukuda) Lost in battle
- No. 70 (1903) (Lt. Nangō Jirō)
- No. 67 (1903) (Lt. Nakamuta Takemasa)
- No. 68 (1903) (Lt. Teraoka Hyōgo)
Special Duty Squadron
[edit]Rear Admiral Ogura Byōichirō in transport Taichū Maru
- Special Duty Division
- 1 transport
- Taichū Maru (Capt. Matsumura Naoomi)
- 17 armed merchantmen
- Amerika Maru (Capt. Ishibashi Hajime)
- Sado Maru (Capt. Kamaya Tadamichi)
- Shinano Maru (Capt. Narikawa Hakaru)
- Yawata Maru (Capt. Kawai Shōgo)
- Tainan Maru (Capt. Takahashi Sukeichirō)
- Taijin Maru (Capt. Arakawa Noriyuki)
- Heijō Maru (Capt. Chayama Toyoya)
- Keijō Maru (Capt. Hanafusa Yūshirō)
- Ehime Maru (Cmdr. Yonemura Sueki)
- Kōryū Maru (Cmdr. Karashima Masao)
- Kōsaka Maru (Cmdr. Kawamura Tatsuzō)
- Mukogawa Maru (Cmdr. Tachikawa Tsuneji)
- 5th Uwajima Maru (Cmdr. Yonehara Sueo)
- Kaijō Maru (Cmdr. Ishimaru Tōta)
- Fusō Maru (Cmdr. Nakamura Kumazō)
- Kantō Maru (Cmdr. Sata Naomichi)
- Miike Maru (Cmdr. Kunieda Katsusaburō)
- 3 torpedo boat depot ships
- Kumano Maru (Capt. Asai Shōjirō)
- Nikkō Maru (Capt. Kimura Kōkichi)
- Kasuga Maru (Capt. Obana Sangō)
- 1 dispatch boat
- Manshū Maru (Cmdr. Nishiyama Yasukichi)
- 2 hospital ships
- Kōbe Maru (Medical Inspector Ishikawa)
- Seikyō Maru (Medical Inspector Oota)
- 1 transport
Divisions outside of the Combined Fleet
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- 5th Torpedo-Boat Division
- Lieut. Commander Ogawa Mizumichi
- Fukuryū (1885) (Lt. Cmdr. Ogawa)
- No. 25 (1894) (Lt. Moritsugu Kumashirō)
- No. 26 (1894) (Lt. Tanaka Yoshitarō)
- No. 27 (1894) (Lt. Nakayama Tomojirō)
- 16th Torpedo-Boat Division
- Lieut. Commander Wakabayashi Kin
- Shirataka (1899) (Lt. Cmdr. Wakabayashi)
- No. 66 (1902) (Lt. Kakuta Kanzō)
- 17th Torpedo-Boat Division
- Lieut. Commander Aoyama Yoshie
- No. 34 (1900) (Lt. Cmdr. Aoyama) Lost in battle
- No. 31 (1899) (Lt. Yamaguchi Sōtarō)
- No. 32 (1900) (Lt. Hitomi Saburō)
- No. 33 (1899) (Lt. Kawakita Kazuo)
- 18th Torpedo-Boat Division
- Lieut. Commander Kawada Katsuji
- No. 36 (1900) (Lt. Cmdr. Kawada)
- No. 60 (1901) (Lt. Kishina Masao)
- No. 61 (1901) (Lt. Miyamura Rekizō)
- No. 35 (1900) (Lt. Soejima Murahachi) Lost in battle
Russian Fleet (Second and Third Pacific Squadrons)
[edit]Battle Fleet
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- First Division
- Vice-Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky in Knyaz Suvorov
- 4 Borodino-class battleships (4 × 12-inch (305 mm), 18 knots)
- Knyaz Suvorov (sunk 27 May) (Capt. 1st rank Vasily Ignatius)
- Imperator Aleksandr III (sunk 27 May) (Capt. 1st rank Nikolai Bukhvostov)
- Borodino (sunk 27 May) (Capt. 1st rank Pyotr Serebrennikov)
- Oryol (captured 28 May) (Capt. 1st rank Nikolay Yung)
- 1 Izumrud-class protected cruiser (6 × 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns, 24 knots)
- Zhemchug (Capt. 2nd rank Pavel Levitsky)
- 4 Borodino-class battleships (4 × 12-inch (305 mm), 18 knots)
- Second Division
- Captain 1st rank Vladimir Baer[g] in Oslyabya
- 3 pre-Dreadnought battleships
- Oslyabya (Peresvet-class) (sunk 27 May) (Capt. 1st rank Vladimir Baer)
- Sissoi Veliky (battleship) (sunk 28 May) (Capt. 1st rank Manuil Ozerov)
- Navarin (variant of Trafalgar-class) (sunk 28 May) (Capt. 1st rank Baron Bruno von Vietinghoff)
- 1 Imperieuse-class armored cruiser (variant)
- Admiral Nakhimov (sunk 28 May) (Capt. 1st rank Aleksandr Rodionov)
- 1 Izumrud-class protected cruiser
- Izumrud (wrecked 29 May) (Capt. 2nd rank Hans William von Fersen)
- 3 pre-Dreadnought battleships
- Third Division
- Rear-Admiral Nikolai Nebogatov in Imperator Nikolai I
- 1 Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleship
- Imperator Nikolai I (captured 28 May) (Capt. 1st rank Vladimir Smirnov)
- 3 Admiral Ushakov-class coastal defense ships
- General Admiral Graf Apraksin (captured 28 May) (Capt. 1st rank Nikolai Lishin)
- Admiral Seniavin (captured 28 May) (Capt. 1st rank Sergei Grogoryev )
- Admiral Ushakov (scuttled 28 May) (Capt. 1st rank Vladimir Miklukha)
- 1 Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleship
- First Cruiser Division
- Rear-Admiral Oskar Enkvist) in Oleg
- 2 protected cruisers
- Oleg (Bogatyr-class) (Capt. 1st rank Leonid Dobrotvorsky)
- Aurora (Pallada-class) (Capt. 1st rank Evgeny Egoriev, Capt. 2nd rank Arkady Nebolsin)
- 2 armored cruisers
- Dmitrii Donskoi (scuttled 29 May) (Capt. 1st rank Ivan Lebedev)[2]
- Vladimir Monomakh (scuttled 28 May) (Capt. 1st rank Vladimir Popov)
- 2 protected cruisers
- Second Scouting Division
- 1 protected cruiser
- Svetlana (sunk 28 May) (Capt. 1st rank Sergei Shein)
- 1 armed merchant cruiser
- Ural (sunk 27 May) (Capt. 2nd rank Mikhail Istomin)
- 1 protected cruiser
Destroyer Flotilla
[edit]- First Destroyer Division
- Second Destroyer Division
- Blestyashchiy (Capt. 2nd Rank Aleksandr Shamov)
- Gromky (Capt. 2nd rank Georgy Kern)
- Grozny (Capt. 2nd rank Konstantin Andrzhievsky)[2]
- Bezuprechny (Capt. 2nd rank Iosif Matusevich II)
- Bodryy (Capt. 2nd rank Pyotr Ivanov)
Transport Squadron
[edit]- Auxiliaries
- 1 armed yacht classified as 2nd class cruiser
- Almaz (Capt. 2nd rank Ivan Chagin)
- 2 transport/merchant ships
- Anadyr (Capt. 2nd rank Vladimir Ponomarev)
- Irtuish (Capt. 2nd rank Konstantin Egormyshev)
- 1 repair ship
- Kamchatka (Capt. 2nd rank Andrey Stephanov)
- 1 ammunition ship
- Koreya (Capt. 1st rank Bakanov)
- 2 fleet tugs
- Rus (Capt. 1st rank V. V. Pernits)
- Svir (Enisgn Gustav Rosenfeld)
- 2 hospital ships
- Oryol (Capt. 2nd rank Yakov Lakhmatov)
- Kostroma (Colonel Nikolai Smelsky)
- 1 armed yacht classified as 2nd class cruiser
Notes
[edit]- ^ Sunk by submarine Sealion during World War II
- ^ The original launch date was 26 July 1901
- ^ Sunk by air attack during World War II
- ^ Sunk by air attack during World War II
- ^ Sunk by air attack during World War II
- ^ The original Kiji was abandoned after an accident at the South-end of Tsushima on 31 March 1904. Replacement boat was constructed with salvaged equipment under the budget item 'repair' at Kure Naval Arsenal; launched on 18 April 1905, completed on 9 May 1905.
- ^ The Second Division's original Cmdr., Rear-Admiral Baron Dmitry von Fölkersam, had died of natural causes during the voyage.
References
[edit]- Forczyk, Robert. Russian Battleship vs Japanese Battleship, Yellow Sea 1904–1905. 2009. Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84603-330-8.
- ^ ja:日本海海戦における連合艦隊幹部(Combined Fleet Command for Battle of Tsushima)
- ^ a b c d Novikov-Priboy, Alexey Silych (1937). "Tsushima" (in Russian).