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

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Source: "Combined Fleet Command for Battle of Tsushima" Japanese version Wikipedia[1]

### First Squadron

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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

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)
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)
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)[a] (Lt. Harada Shōsaku)

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)

Third Destroyer Division
Captain Yoshijima Jyūtarō in Shinonome

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 (1901) (Lt. Cmdr. Seki)
Hayabusa (1899) (Lt. Ebihara Keiichi)
Manazuru (1900) (Lt. Tamaoka Yoshirō)
Hashitaka (1903) (Lt. Miyamoto Matsutarō)

### Second Squadron

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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
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)

Shirakumo (Lt. Cmdr. Kamata Masamichi)
Asashio (Lt. Cmdr. Nanri Dan'ichi)

Fifth Destroyer Division
Commander Hirose Juntarō in Shiranui

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)
Kagerō (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 (1903) (Cmdr. Kawase)
Kari (1903) (Lt. Awaya Gazō)
Tsubame (1903) (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 (1904) (Cmdr. Matsuoka)
Ootori (1904) (Lt. Ōtani Kōshirō)
Kiji (1903)[b] (Lt. Kanzai Uemon)

### Third Squadron

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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 (1903) (Lt. Cmdr. Kondō)
Sagi (1903) (Lt. Yokoo Nao)
Hashitaka (1903) (Lt. Mori Shunzō)
Uzura (1904) (Lt. Suzuki Ujimasa)
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

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Special Duty Squadron lead ship Taichū Maru.

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)

### Divisions outside of the Combined Fleet

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Torpedo boat Fukuryu in 1901

Kure Naval District

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)

Takeshiki Guard District

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)

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### Battle Fleet

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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[c] 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

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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

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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)

## Notes

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1. ^ The original launch date was 26 July 1901
2. ^ 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.
3. ^ The Second Division's original Cmdr., Rear-Admiral Baron Dmitry von Fölkersam, had died of natural causes during the voyage.

## References

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* Forczyk, Robert. Russian Battleship vs Japanese Battleship, Yellow Sea 1904–1905. 2009\. Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84603-330-8.

1. ^ ja:日本海海戦における連合艦隊幹部(Combined Fleet Command for Battle of Tsushima)
2. ^ a b c d Novikov-Priboy, Alexey Silych (1937). "Tsushima" (in Russian).