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On board of Knyaz Suvorov
anchored on the roadstead of Vladivostok
17-th day of May 1905
Your Majesty !
I hereby do have a privilege and honour to inform Your Majesty, that on 14-th day of May 1905, the Second Pacific Squadron met the Japanese fleet in the Tsushima Strait.
In order to fight out the way to Vladivostok the Second Pacific Squadron accepted the battle and fought it with gallantry to the final victory.
It is my sad duty to inform Your Majesty that the losses of Second Pacific Squadron were very heavy, but thanks to God supporting our case the Japanese fleet was wiped out of the surface of the sea.
It is impossible for me to present to Your Majesty the normal and customary commendations for gallantry and bravery in this glorious battle. I can only commend to Your Majesty all the officers and sailors of the fleet, on first place those who lost their lives in the battle on the decks of six sunken ships of the Second Pacific Squadron. All those ships fought with utmost heroism to the very end for God, Tsar and Great Russia.
After the battle the Second Pacific Squadron reached Vladivostok and is now anchored on the roadstead of the harbour, replenishing in a hurry.
The Independent Cruiser Squadron sailed from Vladivostok immediately after arrival of the Second Pacific Squadron, together with all available auxiliary cruisers, gunboats and clippers to interdict the communication lines of Japanese army, now cut off in Korea.
In shortest possible time the Second Pacific Squadron will join the blockade duty.
In order to most completely inform Your Majesty I took the liberty to attach to this report appendixes, containing the description of the battle prepared by the Staff of Second Pacific Squadron, and list of ships detailing the losses and present Ordre de Bataille of Second Pacific Squadron.
Your Majesty’s obedient servant
Zinovi Petrovitch Rozhdestvenski
Vice Admiral
In command of Second Pacific Squadron
of Russian Imperial Fleet
APPENDIX I
At the sunrise the fleet was in normal night convoy formation, steaming 8 knots on general course 60, with battleline in van, accompanied by scouts. The auxiliaries were placed in rear, accompanied by cruisers.
At first daylight some ten Japanese cruisers were spotted. As the fleet was at the moment in the very central point of Tsushima Strait the Commanding Admiral realized that the general fleet action is imminent and unavoidable. The orders were passed by flags to reform the fleet accordingly to the plan presented to all admirals and captains of the Second Pacific Squadron on last general meeting.
The fleet itself formed four columns on general course 45.
The first column: three battleships of first and second class - Sisoi Vyeliki, Navarin and Imperator Nikolai I, three battleships of third class - Admiral Ushakov, Admiral Senyavin and General Admiral Apraksin and two armoured cruisers of second class - Dimitri Donskoj and Vladimir Monomakh.
The second column, Commanding Admiral own: five battleships of the first class - Knyaz Suvorov, Impierator Aleksandr III, Borodino, Oriol and Oslablya accompanied by one armoured cruiser of the first class Admiral Nakhimov.
The third, cruiser column: two cruisers of first class – Oleg and Avrora, three cruisers of second class – Izumrud, Zhyemchug and Svietlana and two cruisers of third class – Ural and Almaz.
The fourth column: nine destroyers – Byedovi, Bodri, Bistri, Buini, Bravi, Gromki, Grozni, Blestyashchi and Bezupryedni.
The auxiliaries were ordered to turn to south, and to keep out of action area.
During the formation the cruiser column closed the Japanese scouting cruiser Idzumi and put her quickly ablaze. The destroyer column took her soon after under concentrated fire, sinking her as a first ship sunken this day.
In the meantime battleships of first column put Japanese scouts on this side into flight.
Shortly after the stakes of smoke from 25 announced the appearance of the main body of Japanese fleet. They were steaming very fast, and Commanding Admiral ordered the speed of 10 knots for all columns. Soon after the destroyer column was ordered to take the station further to the east, but not to brake the visual contact.
When the distance to the enemy diminished the Commanding Admiral ordered both battleship column to turn to south east and increase speed to the maximum. It put the fleet into two paralell lines, both crossing the Japanese „T”. The cruiser column, being still further to the east, turned to the north west, taking station to the south west side of own battleships.
When the Japanese flagship closed the distance to some two and half thousand fathoms the Commanding Admiral ordered all three columns to turn to south east, forming the fleet in three lines abreast, all running before the advancing Japanese fleet. The battleships of the first column opened the fire, concentrating on the Japanese flagship. The battleships of main column supported them from their rear turrets.
The Japanese battleline commanded superior speed, and was closing the distance quickly.
The Commanding Admiral ordered the utmost speed for his own column and for cruiser column, in order to keep a distance as long as possible. The Japanese van concentrated the fire on the old battleship Imperator Nikolai I, and after some fifteen minutes she felt off the formation, covered by flames and fumes, but shortly before Rear Admiral Nikolai Ivanovich Nebogatov, commanding this column, ordered to reform the line on his flagship, and even after she felt off, the line was reformed on the second in line battleship - Admiral Ushakov. Five remaining battleships closed their opposites in Japanese line, coming to the distance of about one thousand fathoms. At the same time the Commanding Admiral ordered his own column to turn and reform on north west course, such crossing the “T” and putting the Japanese van under tremendous fire.
After some time our main column turned simultaneously to the south east, still shelling the Japanese battleships. The battleships of the first column were losing speed, but Japanese battleline was losing its speed also. We all looked in astonishment at this terrible fight. The Commanding Admiral looked at the officers in the command turret and told slowly: “We can only pray to God for saving their souls and we need to open the distance now. Turn to the south – utmost speed!” The main column ceased the fire and disengaged, with cruiser column speeding paralelly to the starboard. Behind, the five old battleships fought still their solitary battle against the main body of Japanese fleet. Only later we learnt, that all four Japanese battleships and four armoured cruisers were fatally damaged in this phase of the battle by the fire of both our battleship columns.
Of the ships of our first column only the old armoured cruisers Dimitri Donskoj and Vladimir Monomakh saved themselves by breaking to the east and then to north, when the Japanese battleline was fighting the battleships.
The commanding Admiral led our remaining battleship and cruiser columns to the south, then to the east and finally to the north. In the distance we spotted the group of Japanese ships closing from the south, after abandoning the chase after our auxiliaries.
From the portside several groups of the Japanese cruisers attacked us fiercely, followed by the mass of destroyers. The Commanding Admiral ordered the cruiser column to turn simultaneously to the south and next both columns to turn in succession, such putting the cruisers between the battleships and advancing Japanese ships. Our cruisers, boldly led by Rear Admiral Oskar Wilhelmovitch Enqvist put the leading Japanese ships into fires, but the Japanese were still closing, and our cruisers turned to east, into the line abreast. The Commanding Admiral ordered his column to turn west, into the line abreast, letting the cruisers to pass between the battleships and then reformed the line shelling the Japanese cruisers from quite short a distance. After few minutes the whole group of cruisers was put out of commision and our cruiser column reformed and returned for a kill, sinking not only the Japanese cruisers, but also some of destroyers.
To the south east we saw the southernmost group of Japanese ships joining the remnants of their battleline, and the Commanding Admiral decided to give a chase. The cruiser column was ordered to follow. Our destroyers started a search for survivors, and the armoured cruisers Dimitri Donskoj and Vladimir Monomakh were closing the battle area from the north. Alltogether they were able to pick up a lot of men both from our and Japanese ships.
The remaining Japanese ships tried to disengage straight to the south, but the group, consisting of four armoured cruisers, ancient battleship Chin Yen, three obsolete, if heavily armed protected cruisers and three unprotected aviso cruisers accompanied by handful of destroyers included some damaged ships, and commanded inferior speed. After long chase our battleships finally closed the distance to less than three thousand fathoms and opened fire. One by one the Japanese armoured cruisers and then other ships felt off the line. The Japanese destroyers mounted several attacks but only one of them was able to close our line enough to hit armoured cruiser Admiral Nakhimov by single torpedo. The hit was placed near the bow and didn’t damage steering or machinery, but the ship was forced to reduce the speed for a time. The Commanding Admiral ordered the turn to the opposite course and covered the damaged ships from the Japanese, sinking the remaining Japanese destroyers in matter of minutes.
The last shots in the battle were fired just minutes before the sunset, so the sun set this day to the sea together with the last Japanese flags disappearing below the waves.
We all on the flagship were almost sure that all Japanese ships perished during the battle, but after the interrogation of the Japanese survivors we learnt that solitary destroyer, called Fubuki, made her escape to deliver the terrible news to the court of Tenno.
Except the six lost battleships, and torpedo damage to the armoured cruiser Admiral Nakhimov the damages to the ships of the Second Pacific Squadron were negligible. No single turret was hit, and only two three inch guns on board of Knyaz Suvorov were destroyed, together with some lightest guns on several ships.
The expense of ammunition was enormous – after ceasing the fire, on all ships only 177 heavy rounds were left, together with few hundred rounds for six inchers. It shows on what thin a margin this memorable victory was achieved.
After the battle the fleet reformed and proceeded to the Vladivostok without meeting any more of enemy ships.
K.K. Clapiers de Collongues
Captain
Chief of Staff
of Commanding Admiral
Second Pacific Squadron
Of Russian Imperial Fleet
APPENDIX II
1. KNYAZ SUVOROV – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS
2. IMPIERATOR ALEKSANDR III – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS
3. ORIOL – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS
4. BORODINO – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS
5. OSLABLYA – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS
6. ADMIRAL NAKHIMOV – ARMOURED CRUISER OF FIRST CLASS
7. DMITRI DONSKOJ – ARMOURED CRUISER OF SECOND CLASS
8. VLADIMIR MONOMAKH – ARMOURED CRUISER OF SECOND CLASS
9. OLEG – CRUISER OF FIRST CLASS
10. AVRORA – CRUISER OF FIRST CLASS
11. SVIETLANA – CRUISER OF SECOND CLASS
12. IZUMRUD – CRUISER OF SECOND CLASS
13. ZHYEMCHUG – CRUISER OF SECOND CLASS
14. ALMAZ – CRUISER OF THIRD CLASS
15. URAL – CRUISER OF THIRD CLASS
16. BYEDOVI – DESTROYER
17. BODRI – DESTROYER
18. BISTRI – DESTROYER
19. BUINI – DESTROYER
20. BRAVI – DESTROYER
21. GROMKI – DESTROYER
22. GROZNI – DESTROYER
23. BLESTYASHCHI – DESTROYER
24. BEZUPRYEDNI - DESTROYER
25. KAMCHATKA – REPAIR SHIP
26. ORYEL – HOSPITAL SHIP
27. KOSTROMA – MEDICAL SUPPORT AND TRANSPORT SHIP
28. ANADYR – TRANSPORT SHIP
29. IRTYSH – TRANSPORT SHIP
30. KOREYA – TRANSPORT SHIP
31. SWIR – SALVAGE SHIP
32. RUS – SALVAGE SHIP
APPENDIX III
2. NAVARIN – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS
3. IMPERATOR NIKOLAI I – BATTLESHIP OF SECOND CLASS
4. ADMIRAL USHAKOV – BATTLESHIP OF THIRD CLASS
5. ADMIRAL SENYAVIN – BATTLESHIP OF THIRD CLASS
6. GENERAL ADMIRAL APRAKSIN – BATTLESHIP OF THIRD CLASS
APPENDIX IV
1. MIKASA – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS
2. SHIKISHIMA – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS
3. ASASHI – BATTLESHIP OF DFIRST CLASS
4. FUJI – BATTLESHIP OF DFIRST CLASS
5. CHIN YEN – BATTLESHIP OF SECOND CLASS
6. NISSHIN – ARMOURED CRUISER
7. KASUGA – ARMOURED CRUISER
8. IWATE – ARMOURED CRUISER
9. AZUMA – ARMOURED CRUISER
10. IZUMO – ARMOURED CRUISER
11. ASAMA – ARMOURED CRUISER
12. YAKUMO – ARMOURED CRUISER
13. TOKIWA – ARMOURED CRUISER
14. IDZUMI – PROTECTED CRUISER
15. CHITOSE – PROTECTED CRUISER
16. KASAGI – PROTECTED CRUISER
17. OTOWA – PROTECTED CRUISER
18. NIITAKA – PROTECTED CRUISER
19. ITSUKUSHIMA – PROTECTED CRUISER
20. MATSUSHIMA – PROTECTED CRUISER
21. HASHIDATE – PROTECTED CRUISER
22. NANIWA – PROTECTED CRUISER
23. TAKACHIHO – PROTECTED CRUISER
24. AKASHI – PROTECTED CRUISER
25. TSUSHIMA – PROTECTED CRUISER
26. SUMA – PROTECTED CRUISER
27. AKITSUSHIMA – PROTECTED CRUISER
28. CHIYODA – BELTED CRUISER
29. YAYEYAMA – UNPROTECTED AVISO CRUISER
30. TATSUTA – UNPROTECTED AVISO CRUISER
31. CHIHAYA – UNPROTECTED AVISO CRUISER
32.ASAGIRI – DESTROYER
33 MURASAME – DESTROYER
34. SHIRAKUMO – DESTROYER
35. ASASHIO – DESTROYER
36. HARUSAME – DESTROYER
37. ARARE – DESTROYER
38. ARIAKE – DESTROYER
39. SHINONOME – DESTROYER
40. USUGUMO – DESTROYER
41. KASUMI – DESTROYER
42. SAZANAMI – DESTROYER
43. SHIRANUI – DESTROYER
44. MURAKUMO – DESTROYER
45. YUGIRI – DESTROYER
46. KAGERO – DESTROYER
47. IKAZUCHI – DESTROYER
48. INADZUMA – DESTROYER
49. OBORO – DESTROYER
50. AKEBONO – DESTROYER
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anchored on the roadstead of Vladivostok
17-th day of May 1905
Your Majesty !
I hereby do have a privilege and honour to inform Your Majesty, that on 14-th day of May 1905, the Second Pacific Squadron met the Japanese fleet in the Tsushima Strait.
In order to fight out the way to Vladivostok the Second Pacific Squadron accepted the battle and fought it with gallantry to the final victory.
It is my sad duty to inform Your Majesty that the losses of Second Pacific Squadron were very heavy, but thanks to God supporting our case the Japanese fleet was wiped out of the surface of the sea.
It is impossible for me to present to Your Majesty the normal and customary commendations for gallantry and bravery in this glorious battle. I can only commend to Your Majesty all the officers and sailors of the fleet, on first place those who lost their lives in the battle on the decks of six sunken ships of the Second Pacific Squadron. All those ships fought with utmost heroism to the very end for God, Tsar and Great Russia.
After the battle the Second Pacific Squadron reached Vladivostok and is now anchored on the roadstead of the harbour, replenishing in a hurry.
The Independent Cruiser Squadron sailed from Vladivostok immediately after arrival of the Second Pacific Squadron, together with all available auxiliary cruisers, gunboats and clippers to interdict the communication lines of Japanese army, now cut off in Korea.
In shortest possible time the Second Pacific Squadron will join the blockade duty.
In order to most completely inform Your Majesty I took the liberty to attach to this report appendixes, containing the description of the battle prepared by the Staff of Second Pacific Squadron, and list of ships detailing the losses and present Ordre de Bataille of Second Pacific Squadron.
Your Majesty’s obedient servant
Zinovi Petrovitch Rozhdestvenski
Vice Admiral
In command of Second Pacific Squadron
of Russian Imperial Fleet
APPENDIX I
BATTLE OF FOURTEENTH OF MAY 1905
IN THE STRAIT OF TSUSHIMA
FIRST SUMMARY
IN THE STRAIT OF TSUSHIMA
FIRST SUMMARY
At the sunrise the fleet was in normal night convoy formation, steaming 8 knots on general course 60, with battleline in van, accompanied by scouts. The auxiliaries were placed in rear, accompanied by cruisers.
At first daylight some ten Japanese cruisers were spotted. As the fleet was at the moment in the very central point of Tsushima Strait the Commanding Admiral realized that the general fleet action is imminent and unavoidable. The orders were passed by flags to reform the fleet accordingly to the plan presented to all admirals and captains of the Second Pacific Squadron on last general meeting.
The fleet itself formed four columns on general course 45.
The first column: three battleships of first and second class - Sisoi Vyeliki, Navarin and Imperator Nikolai I, three battleships of third class - Admiral Ushakov, Admiral Senyavin and General Admiral Apraksin and two armoured cruisers of second class - Dimitri Donskoj and Vladimir Monomakh.
The second column, Commanding Admiral own: five battleships of the first class - Knyaz Suvorov, Impierator Aleksandr III, Borodino, Oriol and Oslablya accompanied by one armoured cruiser of the first class Admiral Nakhimov.
The third, cruiser column: two cruisers of first class – Oleg and Avrora, three cruisers of second class – Izumrud, Zhyemchug and Svietlana and two cruisers of third class – Ural and Almaz.
The fourth column: nine destroyers – Byedovi, Bodri, Bistri, Buini, Bravi, Gromki, Grozni, Blestyashchi and Bezupryedni.
The auxiliaries were ordered to turn to south, and to keep out of action area.
During the formation the cruiser column closed the Japanese scouting cruiser Idzumi and put her quickly ablaze. The destroyer column took her soon after under concentrated fire, sinking her as a first ship sunken this day.
In the meantime battleships of first column put Japanese scouts on this side into flight.
Shortly after the stakes of smoke from 25 announced the appearance of the main body of Japanese fleet. They were steaming very fast, and Commanding Admiral ordered the speed of 10 knots for all columns. Soon after the destroyer column was ordered to take the station further to the east, but not to brake the visual contact.
When the distance to the enemy diminished the Commanding Admiral ordered both battleship column to turn to south east and increase speed to the maximum. It put the fleet into two paralell lines, both crossing the Japanese „T”. The cruiser column, being still further to the east, turned to the north west, taking station to the south west side of own battleships.
When the Japanese flagship closed the distance to some two and half thousand fathoms the Commanding Admiral ordered all three columns to turn to south east, forming the fleet in three lines abreast, all running before the advancing Japanese fleet. The battleships of the first column opened the fire, concentrating on the Japanese flagship. The battleships of main column supported them from their rear turrets.
The Japanese battleline commanded superior speed, and was closing the distance quickly.
The Commanding Admiral ordered the utmost speed for his own column and for cruiser column, in order to keep a distance as long as possible. The Japanese van concentrated the fire on the old battleship Imperator Nikolai I, and after some fifteen minutes she felt off the formation, covered by flames and fumes, but shortly before Rear Admiral Nikolai Ivanovich Nebogatov, commanding this column, ordered to reform the line on his flagship, and even after she felt off, the line was reformed on the second in line battleship - Admiral Ushakov. Five remaining battleships closed their opposites in Japanese line, coming to the distance of about one thousand fathoms. At the same time the Commanding Admiral ordered his own column to turn and reform on north west course, such crossing the “T” and putting the Japanese van under tremendous fire.
After some time our main column turned simultaneously to the south east, still shelling the Japanese battleships. The battleships of the first column were losing speed, but Japanese battleline was losing its speed also. We all looked in astonishment at this terrible fight. The Commanding Admiral looked at the officers in the command turret and told slowly: “We can only pray to God for saving their souls and we need to open the distance now. Turn to the south – utmost speed!” The main column ceased the fire and disengaged, with cruiser column speeding paralelly to the starboard. Behind, the five old battleships fought still their solitary battle against the main body of Japanese fleet. Only later we learnt, that all four Japanese battleships and four armoured cruisers were fatally damaged in this phase of the battle by the fire of both our battleship columns.
Of the ships of our first column only the old armoured cruisers Dimitri Donskoj and Vladimir Monomakh saved themselves by breaking to the east and then to north, when the Japanese battleline was fighting the battleships.
The commanding Admiral led our remaining battleship and cruiser columns to the south, then to the east and finally to the north. In the distance we spotted the group of Japanese ships closing from the south, after abandoning the chase after our auxiliaries.
From the portside several groups of the Japanese cruisers attacked us fiercely, followed by the mass of destroyers. The Commanding Admiral ordered the cruiser column to turn simultaneously to the south and next both columns to turn in succession, such putting the cruisers between the battleships and advancing Japanese ships. Our cruisers, boldly led by Rear Admiral Oskar Wilhelmovitch Enqvist put the leading Japanese ships into fires, but the Japanese were still closing, and our cruisers turned to east, into the line abreast. The Commanding Admiral ordered his column to turn west, into the line abreast, letting the cruisers to pass between the battleships and then reformed the line shelling the Japanese cruisers from quite short a distance. After few minutes the whole group of cruisers was put out of commision and our cruiser column reformed and returned for a kill, sinking not only the Japanese cruisers, but also some of destroyers.
To the south east we saw the southernmost group of Japanese ships joining the remnants of their battleline, and the Commanding Admiral decided to give a chase. The cruiser column was ordered to follow. Our destroyers started a search for survivors, and the armoured cruisers Dimitri Donskoj and Vladimir Monomakh were closing the battle area from the north. Alltogether they were able to pick up a lot of men both from our and Japanese ships.
The remaining Japanese ships tried to disengage straight to the south, but the group, consisting of four armoured cruisers, ancient battleship Chin Yen, three obsolete, if heavily armed protected cruisers and three unprotected aviso cruisers accompanied by handful of destroyers included some damaged ships, and commanded inferior speed. After long chase our battleships finally closed the distance to less than three thousand fathoms and opened fire. One by one the Japanese armoured cruisers and then other ships felt off the line. The Japanese destroyers mounted several attacks but only one of them was able to close our line enough to hit armoured cruiser Admiral Nakhimov by single torpedo. The hit was placed near the bow and didn’t damage steering or machinery, but the ship was forced to reduce the speed for a time. The Commanding Admiral ordered the turn to the opposite course and covered the damaged ships from the Japanese, sinking the remaining Japanese destroyers in matter of minutes.
The last shots in the battle were fired just minutes before the sunset, so the sun set this day to the sea together with the last Japanese flags disappearing below the waves.
We all on the flagship were almost sure that all Japanese ships perished during the battle, but after the interrogation of the Japanese survivors we learnt that solitary destroyer, called Fubuki, made her escape to deliver the terrible news to the court of Tenno.
Except the six lost battleships, and torpedo damage to the armoured cruiser Admiral Nakhimov the damages to the ships of the Second Pacific Squadron were negligible. No single turret was hit, and only two three inch guns on board of Knyaz Suvorov were destroyed, together with some lightest guns on several ships.
The expense of ammunition was enormous – after ceasing the fire, on all ships only 177 heavy rounds were left, together with few hundred rounds for six inchers. It shows on what thin a margin this memorable victory was achieved.
After the battle the fleet reformed and proceeded to the Vladivostok without meeting any more of enemy ships.
K.K. Clapiers de Collongues
Captain
Chief of Staff
of Commanding Admiral
Second Pacific Squadron
Of Russian Imperial Fleet
APPENDIX II
YOUR MAJESTY’S SHIPS OF THE SECOND PACIFIC SQUADRON ANCHORED NOW ON THE ROADSTEAD OF VLADIVOSTOK
1. KNYAZ SUVOROV – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS
2. IMPIERATOR ALEKSANDR III – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS
3. ORIOL – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS
4. BORODINO – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS
5. OSLABLYA – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS
6. ADMIRAL NAKHIMOV – ARMOURED CRUISER OF FIRST CLASS
7. DMITRI DONSKOJ – ARMOURED CRUISER OF SECOND CLASS
8. VLADIMIR MONOMAKH – ARMOURED CRUISER OF SECOND CLASS
9. OLEG – CRUISER OF FIRST CLASS
10. AVRORA – CRUISER OF FIRST CLASS
11. SVIETLANA – CRUISER OF SECOND CLASS
12. IZUMRUD – CRUISER OF SECOND CLASS
13. ZHYEMCHUG – CRUISER OF SECOND CLASS
14. ALMAZ – CRUISER OF THIRD CLASS
15. URAL – CRUISER OF THIRD CLASS
16. BYEDOVI – DESTROYER
17. BODRI – DESTROYER
18. BISTRI – DESTROYER
19. BUINI – DESTROYER
20. BRAVI – DESTROYER
21. GROMKI – DESTROYER
22. GROZNI – DESTROYER
23. BLESTYASHCHI – DESTROYER
24. BEZUPRYEDNI - DESTROYER
25. KAMCHATKA – REPAIR SHIP
26. ORYEL – HOSPITAL SHIP
27. KOSTROMA – MEDICAL SUPPORT AND TRANSPORT SHIP
28. ANADYR – TRANSPORT SHIP
29. IRTYSH – TRANSPORT SHIP
30. KOREYA – TRANSPORT SHIP
31. SWIR – SALVAGE SHIP
32. RUS – SALVAGE SHIP
APPENDIX III
SHIPS OF SECOND PACIFIC SQUADRON WHICH SANK IN THE BATTLE SERVING YOUR MAJESTY TO THE VERY END
1. SISOI VYELIKI – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS2. NAVARIN – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS
3. IMPERATOR NIKOLAI I – BATTLESHIP OF SECOND CLASS
4. ADMIRAL USHAKOV – BATTLESHIP OF THIRD CLASS
5. ADMIRAL SENYAVIN – BATTLESHIP OF THIRD CLASS
6. GENERAL ADMIRAL APRAKSIN – BATTLESHIP OF THIRD CLASS
APPENDIX IV
ENEMY SHIPS WITH THE HELP OF GOD SUNKEN IN THE BATTLE
1. MIKASA – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS
2. SHIKISHIMA – BATTLESHIP OF FIRST CLASS
3. ASASHI – BATTLESHIP OF DFIRST CLASS
4. FUJI – BATTLESHIP OF DFIRST CLASS
5. CHIN YEN – BATTLESHIP OF SECOND CLASS
6. NISSHIN – ARMOURED CRUISER
7. KASUGA – ARMOURED CRUISER
8. IWATE – ARMOURED CRUISER
9. AZUMA – ARMOURED CRUISER
10. IZUMO – ARMOURED CRUISER
11. ASAMA – ARMOURED CRUISER
12. YAKUMO – ARMOURED CRUISER
13. TOKIWA – ARMOURED CRUISER
14. IDZUMI – PROTECTED CRUISER
15. CHITOSE – PROTECTED CRUISER
16. KASAGI – PROTECTED CRUISER
17. OTOWA – PROTECTED CRUISER
18. NIITAKA – PROTECTED CRUISER
19. ITSUKUSHIMA – PROTECTED CRUISER
20. MATSUSHIMA – PROTECTED CRUISER
21. HASHIDATE – PROTECTED CRUISER
22. NANIWA – PROTECTED CRUISER
23. TAKACHIHO – PROTECTED CRUISER
24. AKASHI – PROTECTED CRUISER
25. TSUSHIMA – PROTECTED CRUISER
26. SUMA – PROTECTED CRUISER
27. AKITSUSHIMA – PROTECTED CRUISER
28. CHIYODA – BELTED CRUISER
29. YAYEYAMA – UNPROTECTED AVISO CRUISER
30. TATSUTA – UNPROTECTED AVISO CRUISER
31. CHIHAYA – UNPROTECTED AVISO CRUISER
32.ASAGIRI – DESTROYER
33 MURASAME – DESTROYER
34. SHIRAKUMO – DESTROYER
35. ASASHIO – DESTROYER
36. HARUSAME – DESTROYER
37. ARARE – DESTROYER
38. ARIAKE – DESTROYER
39. SHINONOME – DESTROYER
40. USUGUMO – DESTROYER
41. KASUMI – DESTROYER
42. SAZANAMI – DESTROYER
43. SHIRANUI – DESTROYER
44. MURAKUMO – DESTROYER
45. YUGIRI – DESTROYER
46. KAGERO – DESTROYER
47. IKAZUCHI – DESTROYER
48. INADZUMA – DESTROYER
49. OBORO – DESTROYER
50. AKEBONO – DESTROYER
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