East China Sea off Jiju Island, 28 May 1905. A picture of damaged Russian cruiser Aurora is made from cruiser Oleg on the second day of the Battle of Tsushima.
The Izumo-class cruisers (出雲型装甲巡洋艦, Izumo-gata sōkōjun’yōkan) were a pair of armored cruisers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s. As Japan lacked the industrial capacity to build such warships herself, the vessels were built in Britain.