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

First Squadron




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
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Mikasa (Capt. Ijichi Hikojirō)
 * 2 Shikishima-class
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Shikishima (Capt. Teragaki Izō)
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Asahi (variant) (Capt. Nomoto Tsunaaki)
 * 1 Fuji-class
 * JAPANESE BATTLESHIP Fuji (Capt. Matsumoto Kazu)
 * 2 armored cruisers: both Giuseppe Garibaldi-class variants
 * JAPANESE CRUISER Nisshin (Capt. Heitarō Takenouchi)
 * (4 × 8-inch (203 mm), 20 knots)
 * JAPANESE CRUISER 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)
 * JAPANESE CRUISER 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)
 * JAPANESE CRUISER Kasagi (Capt. Yamaya Tanin)
 * JAPANESE CRUISER Chitose (Capt. Takagi Sukekazu)
 * 2 Niitaka-class (6 × quick-firing 6-inch (152 mm), 20 knots)
 * JAPANESE CRUISER Niitaka (Capt. Shōji Yoshimoto)
 * JAPANESE CRUISER 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


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)




 * 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)
 * JAPANESE DESTROYER Shirakumo (Lt. Cmdr. Kamata Masamichi)
 * JAPANESE DESTROYER 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

 * Fifth Division
 * Rear Admiral Taketomi Kunikane in protected cruiser 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 Hikohachi Yamada 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. Nangō Jirō)
 * No. 67 (Lt. Nakamuta Takemasa)
 * No. 68 (Lt. Teraoka Hyōgo)

Special Duty Squadron
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
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

Battle Fleet



 * 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 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 )
 * 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)
 * 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

 * First Destroyer Division
 * Byedovy (Capt. 2nd rank Nikolai Baranov)
 * Bystryy (1902) (Lt. Otto Theodor von Richter)
 * Buiny (Capt. 2nd rank Nikolai Kolomeytsev)
 * 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)
 * Bezuprechny (Capt. 2nd rank Iosif Matusevich II)
 * Bodryy (Capt. 2nd rank Pyotr Ivanov)

Transport Squadron

 * 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)