✦ History

Part of Russo-Japanese War

Battle of Tsushima

May 27–28, 1905 · Battle of Tsushima

Result Japanese victory

Decisive naval battle in which the Combined Fleet destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet.

On the map Contemporaries

Japan

Russia

Japan
Russian Empire
Kamimura Hikonojō military commander Tōgō Heihachirō military commander Kataoka Shichirō military commander
Nikolai Nebogatov military commander Zinovy Rozhestvensky military commander Oskar Enkvist military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
c. 14,000
Casualties
c. 700
Killed
c. 120
Ships
c. 99
Ships lost
c. 3
Guns
c. 917
Strength
c. 16,000
Casualties
c. 11,000
Killed
c. 3,500
Deaths
5,045
Wounded
803
Captured
6,016
Ships
c. 44
Ships lost
c. 25

Units

Combined Fleet Japanese Second Fleet
Baltic Fleet Second Pacific Squadron Third Pacific Squadron

Also involved 2