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Tsushima Strait Order Of Battle
This is the order of battle of the Japanese and Russian fleets at the Battle of Tsushima on 2728 May 1905. Japanese Combined Fleet Source: "Combined Fleet Command for Battle of Tsushima" Japanese version Wikipedia :ja:日本海海戦における連合艦隊幹部(Combined Fleet Command for Battle of Tsushima) First Squadron (Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō) * First Division ''(Vice Admiral Misu Sōtarō)'' ** ''Mikasa'' (Fleet Flagship) (variant of ''Majestic''-class battleship) Captain Ijichi Hikojirō ** ''Shikishima'' ( ''Shikishima''-class battleship) Captain Teragaki Izō ** ''Fuji'' ( ''Fuji''-class battleship) Captain Matsumoto Kazu ** ''Asahi'' (Variant of ''Shikishima'' class) Captain Nomoto Tsunaaki ** ''Nisshin'' (Flagship for Misu) ( ''Giuseppe Garibaldi''-class armoured cruiser) Captain Heitarō Takenouchi ** ''Kasuga'' ( ''Giuseppe Garibaldi''-class armoured cruiser) Captain Katō Sadakichi ** ''Tatsuta'' (Dispatch Vessel) Commander Yamagata Bunzō * Third ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial Japanese Navy
The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: Shinjitai: ' 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or ''Nippon Kaigun'', 'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender in World War II. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) was formed between 1952–1954 after the dissolution of the IJN. The Imperial Japanese Navy was the third largest navy in the world by 1920, behind the Royal Navy and the United States Navy (USN). It was supported by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service for aircraft and airstrike operation from the fleet. It was the primary opponent of the Western Allies in the Pacific War. The origins of the Imperial Japanese Navy go back to early interactions with nations on the Asian continent, beginning in the early medieval period and reaching a peak of activity during the 16th and 17th centuries at a time of cultural exchange with European powers during the Age of Discovery. After t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nomoto Tsunaaki
Nomoto (written: 野本 or 野元) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese basketball player *, Japanese astrophysicist and astronomer *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese basketball player *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer Fictional characters *, a character in the manga series ''Killing Bites is a Japanese manga series written by Shinya Murata and illustrated by Kazuasa Sumita. It has been serialized since November 2013 in Hero's Inc.'s ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Monthly Hero's''. It has been collected in eighteen ''tankōbon'' ...'' {{surname Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamaya Tanin
was a naval theorist and admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the early twentieth century. He was a great-grandfather of Japanese Empress Masako through her mother's lineage. Biography Early life and career Yamaya was the son of a ''samurai'' retainer of Nambu Domain in Morioka, Mutsu Province (present day Iwate Prefecture). He graduated from the 12th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1886, ranked 5th out of 19 cadets. As a midshipman, he served on the cruiser and as navigation officer on the corvette . During the First Sino-Japanese War, Yamaya was chief navigator on the converted passenger liner ''Saikyo-maru'', and was present during the Battle of the Yalu on September 17, 1894, when the ship was commanded by the belligerent Admiral Kabayama Sukenori. From February 1895, he was assigned as chief torpedo officer on . In 1896, Yamaya attended to the Naval War College, and was promoted to lieutenant commander in December 1897. He became an instructor a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasagi-class Cruiser
The was a class of two protected cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy built in the United States at the end of the 19th century. Background The ''Kasagi''-class cruisers were ordered under the 1896 Emergency Fleet Replenishment Budget, funded by the war indemnity received from the Empire of China as part of the settlement of the Treaty of Shimonoseki ending the First Sino-Japanese War. Unlike previous vessels, which had been acquired from European shipyards, the Japanese government turned this time to the United States. Design The ''Kasagi''-class cruisers were externally based on the design of the British built cruiser – a typical Elswick cruiser design, with a steel hull, divided into waterproof compartments, a low forecastle, two smokestacks, and two masts, but with slightly larger displacement and overall dimensions. However, internally the arrangement of the structure was quite different. The prow was reinforced for ramming. The power plant was a triple expansion reci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Cruiser Kasagi
was the lead ship in the protected cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The vessel was the sister ship to the . She was named after Mount Kasagi, a holy mountain outside Kyoto. Background ''Kasagi'' was ordered as part of the 1896 Emergency Fleet Replenishment Budget, funded by the war indemnity received from the Empire of China as part of the settlement of the Treaty of Shimonoseki ending the First Sino-Japanese War. Design ''Kasagi'' was designed and built in Philadelphia, in the United States by William Cramp & Sons (who had also built the cruiser for the Imperial Russian Navy). ''Kasagi'' was the first major capital warship to be ordered by the Imperial Japanese Navy from an American shipbuilder. Her specifications were very similar to that of the British-built , but with slightly larger displacement and overall dimensions, but with identical gun armament (and without the bow torpedo tubes). However, internally the ships were very different, with ''Kasagi'' having 142 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dewa Shigetō
Baron was a Japanese admiral in the early days of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Biography Dewa was born as the son of a ''samurai'' of the Aizu domain (present day Fukushima prefecture). As a youth, he enlisted in the ''Byakkotai,'' a reserve unit of the Aizu domain's official military. The ''Byakkotai'' was called into action, and Dewa served at the Battle of Aizu in the Boshin War. Dewa attended the 5th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy, graduating 6th out of 43 cadets. He was appointed a midshipman on 16 August 1878, promoted to ensign on 12 August 1880 and promoted to sub-lieutenant on 27 February 1883. He served as a junior officer on several vessels of the early Japanese Navy, including the corvette , ironclad warship , sloop ''Hōshō'', ironclad warship , corvette , and cruisers , and . He was promoted to lieutenant on 7 April 1886 and to lieutenant-commander on 16 October 1890. From 1886-1890, he was executive officer on the cruiser . From 1893-1893, he was ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamagata Bunzō
Yamagata may refer to: Places Japan * Yamagata Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku region on Honshu island ** Yamagata, Yamagata, the capital city of Yamagata Prefecture ** Yamagata Airport (IATA code GAJ), an airport located in Yamagata ** Yamagata Shinkansen, one of Shinkansen lines running between Tokyo Station and Shinjo Station ** Yamagata Station, the main train station of Yamagata City **Yamagata (ski jump hill), an FIS-certified hill at Yamagata Zao Onsen Ski Resort * Yamagata, Gifu, a city in Gifu Prefecture *Yamagata, Nagano, a village in Higashichikuma District, Nagano, Japan *Yamagata, Iwate, a village in Iwate Prefecture *Yamagata District, Hiroshima, a district in Hiroshima Prefecture * Yamagata District, Gifu, a former district of Gifu Prefecture * Yamagata, Ibaraki, a city in Ibaraki Prefecture * Yamagata Domain, a Japanese feudal domain in Dewa Province *Yamagata Castle, a castle in Japan Elsewhere *Yamagata Ridge, a nunatak in Oates Land, Antarctica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dispatch Boat
Dispatch boats were small boats, and sometimes large ships, tasked to carry military dispatches from ship to ship or from ship to shore or, in some cases from shore to shore. Dispatch boats were employed when other means of transmitting a message was not possible or safe or as quick. Dispatch boats, which performed their dispatch-carrying duties only on a temporary basis, should not be confused with packet ships—sometimes called packet boats or paquetbots—which were cargo ships which also routinely carried the mail from port to port. Generally, dispatch boats served the military, and paquetbots served commerce. Use of term by the U.S. Navy ''Dispatch boat'' was a term used by the United States Navy in its journal accounts to describe boats which carried messages, or mail—otherwise termed dispatches—between high-ranking military officials aboard other ships or to land-based destinations. Dispatch boats during the American Revolution In 1776 the Continental Navy ship ''L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Cruiser Tatsuta (1894)
was an unprotected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The name ''Tatsuta'' comes from the Tatsuta River, near Nara. ''Tatsuta'' was used by the Imperial Japanese Navy primarily as an aviso (dispatch boat) used for scouting, reconnaissance and delivery of priority messages. Background ''Tatsuta'' was ordered from Armstrong Whitworth in Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, England as a large torpedo boat under the 1891 Fiscal Year budget as a replacement for the ill-fated .Schencking, '' Making Waves'', p. 55. Design ''Tatsuta'' had a steel hull and retained a full barque rigging with two masts for auxiliary sail propulsion in addition to her steam engine. She was armed with two QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I–IVs guns, four QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss guns, five 2.5-pounder guns and five torpedo tubes, mounted on the deck. Service record Rushed through production due to the impending First Sino-Japanese War, ''Tatsuta'' was en route to Japan when hostilities commenced, and she was impounded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katō Sadakichi
Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I. His brother, Katō Yasuhisa, was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, and his adoptive son was the biological son of Admiral Dewa Shigetō. Biography Katō was born in Tokyo, as the third son of Katō Yasukichi, a ''hatamoto'' retainer of the Tokugawa shogunate. He attended the Numazu Military Academy, and in October 1883 graduated at the top of his class from the 10th class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy. One of his classmates was Yamashita Gentarō. He served as a torpedo officer on the ''Jingei'', and . With the opening of the Sasebo Naval District, he was appointed secretary to Admiral Akamatsu Noriyoshi. From July 1891 to March 1893, Katō served as chief weapons officer on the cruiser . He was then sent to Germany as part of the entourage of Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu. He remained with the prince in Germany through the duration of the First Sino-Japanese War. After his return to Japan, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Cruiser Kasuga
was the name ship of the armored cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, built in the first decade of the 20th century by Gio. Ansaldo & C., Sestri Ponente, Italy, where the type was known as the . The ship was originally ordered by the Royal Italian Navy as ''Mitra'' in 1901 and sold in 1902 to Argentine Navy who renamed her ''Bernardino Rivadavia'' during the Argentine–Chilean naval arms race, but the lessening of tensions with Chile and financial pressures caused the Argentinians to sell her before delivery. At that time tensions between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire were rising, and the ship was offered to both sides before she was purchased by the Japanese. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, ''Kasuga'' participated in the Battle of the Yellow Sea and was lightly damaged during the subsequent Battle of Tsushima. In addition, she frequently bombarded the defenses of Port Arthur. The ship played a limited role in World War I and was used to escort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heitarō Takenouchi
was a Japanese Rear-Admiral during the Russo-Japanese War. He commanded the '' Nisshin'' throughout the war and was also known for delivering the ''Kasuga'' and ''Nisshin'' from Genoa to Yokosuka. Family Heitarō was born on February 6, 1863, at Matsue into a family that would eventually restore the castle tower of Matsue Castle. "Quarterly Sanin No. 17: Major General Takeuchi Heitaro" His eldest son, Kazunobu Takenouchi, was the Colonel of the 53rd Air Division and the 7th Air Communications Regiment of the Imperial Japanese Army at the end of World War II. Early Military Career On 1877, he enrolled in the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy before graduating from its 8th class as its deputy director before being promoted to ensign on 1885. Takenouchi was then promoted to captain in 1882 and later sent to France to study abroad on 1892. He returned to Japan in 1894 before becoming part of the Saikai Fleet Staff in 1895. Following that, he was promoted to Sub-lieutenant in 1896 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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