Order_of_battle_at_the_Battle_of_Tsushima Knowpia

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 edit

Admiral Togo in 1907

Flagship of the Imperial Japanese Fleet, battleship Mikasa at Kure Naval Base near the city of Hiroshima

Armored cruiser Kasuga at Sasebo Naval Base on the northwest coast of Kyushu

Ikazuchi-class destroyer Sazanami at Yokosuka Naval Base at the mouth of Tokyo Bay

Hayabusa-class torpedo boat at Kobe on the Inland Sea

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 (variant) (Capt. Nomoto Tsunaaki)

1 Fuji-class

Fuji (Capt. Matsumoto Kazu)

2 armored cruisers: both Giuseppe Garibaldi-class variants

Nisshin (Capt. Heitarō Takenouchi)

(4 × 8-inch (203 mm), 20 knots)

Kasuga (Capt. Katō Sadakichi)

(forward: 1 × 10-inch (254 mm), aft: 2 × 8-inch (203 mm), 20 knots)

1 dispatch vessel (2 × quick-firing 4.7-inch (120 mm), 21 knots)

Tatsuta (Cmdr. Yamagata Bunzō)

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)

First Destroyer Division

Captain Fujimoto Shūshirō

4 Harusame-class destroyers (1 × quick-firing 12-pounder, 29 knots)

Harusame (1902) (Capt. Fujimoto Shūshirō)

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) (Lt. Harada Shōsaku)

Second Destroyer Division

Captain Yajima Junkichi

4 Ikazuchi-class destroyers (1 × quick-firing 12-pounder, 30 knots)

Oboro (1899) (Lt. Fujiwara Eizaburō)

Inazuma (1899) (Lt. Cmdr. Suga Tetsuichirō)

Ikazuchi (1898) (Lt. Cmdr. Saitō Hanroku)

Akebono (1899) (Lt. Yamanouchi Shirō)

Third Destroyer Division

Captain Yoshijima Jyūtarō

4 destroyers

2 Shinonome-class (1 × quick-firing 12-pounder, 30 knots)

Shinonome (Lt. Cmdr. Yoshida Mōshi)

Usugumo (Lt. Cmdr. Masuda Chūkichirō)

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)

14th Torpedo-Boat Division

Lieut. Commander Seki Shigetaka

4 Hayabusa-class torpedo boats (3 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes, 29 knots)

Chidori (1898) (Lt. Cmdr. Seki)

Hayabusa (1900) (Lt. Ebihara Keiichi)

Manazuru (1899) (Lt. Tamaoka Yoshirō)

Hashitaka (1903) (Lt. Miyamoto Matsutarō)

Second Squadron edit

Armored cruiser Azuma at Portsmouth Naval Base, England, 1900

Protected cruiser Naniwa in 1887

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)

Izumo (Capt. Ijichi Suetaka)

Iwate (Capt. Kawashima Reijirō)

2 Asama-class (4 × 8-inch (203 mm), 21 knots)

Asama (Capt. Yashiro Rokurō)

Tokiwa (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)

Fourth Division

Vice Admiral Uryū Sotokichi in Naniwa

4 protected cruisers

2 Naniwa-class (2 × 10.2-inch (260 mm), 18 knots)

Naniwa (Capt. Wada Kensuke)

Takachiho (Capt. Mōri Ichihei)

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)

Harusame-class destroyer Murasame at Sasebo Naval Base in 1919

Destroyer Shirakumo during commissioning in England, 1902

Fourth Destroyer Division

Captain Suzuki Kantarō

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)

Shirakumo (Lt. Cmdr. Kamata Masamichi)

Asashio (Lt. Cmdr. Nanri Dan'ichi)

Fifth Destroyer Division

Commander Hirose Juntarō

4 Murakumo-class destroyers (1 × quick-firing 12-pounder, 30 knots)

Shiranui (Lt. Cmdr. Kuwashima Shōzō)

Murakumo (Lt. Cmdr. Shimanouchi Kanta)

Yūgiri (Lt. Cmdr. Tashiro Miyoharu)

Kagero (1899) (Lt. Yoshikawa Yasuhira)

9th Torpedo-Boat Division

Commander Kawase Hayaharu

4 Hayabusa-class torpedo boats (1 × 2.2-inch (57 mm), 29 knots)

Aotaka (Cmdr. Kawase)

Kari (1903) (Lt. Awaya Gazō)

Tsubame (Lt. Tajiri Yuiji)

Hato (1903) (Lt. Iguchi Daijirō)

19th Torpedo-Boat Division

Commander Matsuoka Shūzō

3 Hayabusa-class torpedo boats (1 × 2.2-inch (57 mm), 29 knots)

Kamome (Cmdr. Matsuoka)

Ootori (1903) (Lt. Ōtani Kōshirō)

Kiji (1902) (Lt. Kanzai Uemon)

Third Squadron edit

Matsushima-class protected cruiser Itsukushima

Ironclad cruiser Fusō

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)

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)

Seventh Division

Rear Admiral Yamada Hikohachi in Fusō

1 ironclad cruiser

Fusō (Capt. Nagai Gunkichi)

2 unprotected cruisers

Takao (Capt. Yashiro Yoshinori)

Tsukushi (Cmdr. Tsuchiyama Tetsuzō)

2 Maya-class gunboats

Chōkai (Cmdr. Ushida Jūzaburō)

Maya (Cmdr. Fujita Sadaichi)

1 gunboat

Uji (Lt. Cmdr. Kaneko Mitsuyoshi)

15th Torpedo-Boat Division

Lieut. Commander Kondō Tsunematsu

4 Hayabusa-class torpedo boats (3 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes, 29 knots)

Hibari (Lt. Cmdr. Kondō)

Sagi (1903) (Lt. Yokoo Nao)

Hashitaka (Lt. Mori Shunzō)

Uzura (Lt. Suzuki Ujimasa)

10th Torpedo-Boat Division

Lieut. Commander Ōtaki Michisuke

No. 43 (Lt. Cmdr. Ōtaki)

No. 40 (Sub-Lt. Nakahara Yahei)

No. 41 (Lt. Mizuno Hironori)

No. 39 (Lt. Ōgane Minoru)

11th Torpedo-Boat Division

Lieut. Commander Fujimoto Umejirō

No. 73 (Lt. Cmdr. Fujimoto)

No. 72 (Lt. Sasao Gennojō)

No. 74 (Lt. Ōtawara Tōru)

No. 75 (Lt. Kawai Taizō)

20th Torpedo-Boat Division

Lieut. Commander Kubo Kimata)

No. 65 (Lt. Cmdr. Kubo)

No. 62 (Lt. Tona Genzaburō)

No. 64 (Lt. Tominaga Torajirō)

No. 63 (Lt. Eguchi Kinma)

1st Torpedo-Boat Division

Lieut. Commander Fukuda Masateru)

No. 69 (Lt. Cmdr. Fukuda) Lost in battle

No. 70 (Lt. Jirō Nangō)

No. 67 (Lt. Nakamuta Takemasa)

No. 68 (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)

20 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)

Kumano Maru (Capt. Asai Shōjirō)

Nikkō Maru (Capt. Kimura Kōkichi)

Kasuga Maru (Capt. Obana Sangō)

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)

1 dispatch boat

Manshū Maru (Cmdr. Nishiyama Yasukichi)

2 hospital ships

Kōbe Maru (Medical Inspector Ishikawa)

Seikyō Maru (Medical Inspector Oota)

Divisions outside of the Combined Fleet edit

Torpedo boat Fukuryu in 1901

Kure Naval District

5th Torpedo-Boat Division

Lieut. Commander Ogawa Mizumichi

Fukuryū (Lt. Cmdr. Ogawa)

No. 25 (Lt. Moritsugu Kumashirō)

No. 26 (Lt. Tanaka Yoshitarō)

No. 27 (Lt. Nakayama Tomojirō)

Takeshiki Guard District

16th Torpedo-Boat Division

Lieut. Commander Wakabayashi Kin

Shirataka (Lt. Cmdr. Wakabayashi)

No. 66 (Lt. Kakuta Kanzō)

17th Torpedo-Boat Division

Lieut. Commander Aoyama Yoshie

No. 34 (Lt. Cmdr. Aoyama) Lost in battle

No. 31 (Lt. Yamaguchi Sōtarō)

No. 32 (Lt. Hitomi Saburō)

No. 33 (Lt. Kawakita Kazuo)

18th Torpedo-Boat Division

Lieut. Commander Kawada Katsuji

No. 36 (Lt. Cmdr. Kawada)

No. 60 (Lt. Kishina Masao)

No. 61 (Lt. Miyamura Rekizō)

No. 35 (Lt. Soejima Murahachi) Lost in battle

Russian Fleet (Second and Third Pacific Squadrons) edit

Battle Fleet edit

Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky

Flagship of the Imperial Russian Fleet, battleship Knyaz Suvorov

Protected cruiser Zhemchug

Armored cruiser Vladimir Monomakh

Armed yacht Almaz

First Division

Vice-Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky in Knyaz Suvorov

4 Borodino-class battleships (4 × 12-inch (305 mm), 18 knots)

Knyaz Suvorov (Capt. 1st rank Vasily Ignatius)

Imperator Aleksandr III (Capt. 1st rank Nikolai Bukhvostov)

Borodino (Capt. 1st rank Pyotr Serebrennikov)

Oryol (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)

Second Division

Captain 1st rank Vladimir Baer^[a] in Oslyabya

3 pre-Dreadnought battleships

Oslyabya (Peresvet-class) (Capt. 1st rank Vladimir Baer)

Sissoi Veliky (battleship) (Capt. 1st rank Manuil Ozerov)

Navarin (variant of Trafalgar-class) (Capt. 1st rank Baron Bruno von Vietinghoff)

1 Imperieuse-class armored cruiser (variant)

Admiral Nakhimov (Capt. 1st rank Aleksandr Rodionov)

1 Izumrud-class protected cruiser

Izumrud (Capt. 2nd rank Hans William von Fersen)

Third Division

Rear-Admiral Nikolai Nebogatov in Imperator Nikolai I

1 Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleship

Imperator Nikolai I (Capt. 1st rank Vladimir Smirnov)

3 Admiral Ushakov-class coastal defense ships

General Admiral Graf Apraksin (Capt. 1st rank Nikolai Lishin)

Admiral Seniavin (Capt. 1st rank Sergei Grogoryev [ru])

Admiral Ushakov (Capt. 1st rank Vladimir Miklukha)

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 (Capt. 1st rank Ivan Lebedev)^[2]

Vladimir Monomakh (Capt. 1st rank Vladimir Popov)

Second Scouting Division

1 protected cruiser

Svetlana (Capt. 1st rank Sergei Shein)

1 armed merchant cruiser

Ural (Capt. 2nd rank Mikhail Istomin)

Destroyer Flotilla edit

First Destroyer Division

Byedovy (Capt. 2nd rank Nikolai Baranov)^[2]

Bystryy (1902) (Lt. Otto Theodor von Richter)

Buiny (Capt. 2nd rank Nikolai Kolomeytsev)^[2]

Bravyy (Lt. Pavel Durnovo)

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)