The Battle of Tsushima, commonly known as the “Sea of Japan Naval Battle“ in Japan and the “Battle of Tsushima Strait“, was the major naval battle fought between Russia and Japan during the Russo-Japanese War. This was naval history’s only decisive sea battle fought by modern steel battleship fleets, the first naval battle in which wireless telegraphy played a critically important role, and has been characterized as the “dying echo of the old era -- for the last time in the history of naval warfare ships of the line of a beaten fleet surrendered on the high seas.“ It was fought on May 27--28, 1905 (May 14--15 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia) in the Tsushima Strait between Korea and southern Japan. In this battle the Japanese fleet under Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō destroyed two-thirds of the Russian fleet, under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, which had traveled over 18,000 nautical miles (33,000 km) to reach the Far East. In London in 1906, Sir Georg
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