A Sailor of Our Warship Sazanami Jumped onto…, Harada Kōkyo, 1904, Saint Louis Art Museum: Asian Art
Russian
armored cruiser Gromoboi, built for commerce raiding against British
shipping far from the seats of empire, seen in Melbourne, Australia,
during April-May 1901. The event was the granting of the Constitution of
Australia, which united the six British colonies on the continent into
one Commonwealth; following this event, Gromoboi stopped off in Japan
before reaching Port Arthur, Russia’s force-leased, ice-free naval base
in southern Manchuria on the Yellow Sea.
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Hey, if you’re loving this Suez situation, read up on the Dogger Bank Incident. It’s hysterical.
This fucking classic.
That whole fleet endured likely the most outrageous banter in naval history.
why did they even think japanese torpedo boats were knockin about off the coast of britain, also why were THEY knockin about off the coast of britain
Alas I don’t have the time to explain it but if you look up the history of that Russian naval expedition it’s actually amazing.
For good measure as the fleet left Tangier one ship managed to cut the city’s underwater telegraph cable with her anchor which prevented communication with Europe for four days.
Rurik was an armored cruiser built for the Imperial Russian Navy
in the early 1890s. She was sunk at the Battle of Ulsan in the
Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05.
Russian and Japanese destroyers port arthur 1904
Title: The Imperial Russian army on the march to the frontline. Manchuria, Russo-Japanese war, 1904-1905. [951 x 650]
Source: https://reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/comments/jejtsy/the_imperial_russian_army_on_the_march_to_the/
Pallada was the lead ship in the Pallada class of protected cruisers in the Imperial Russian Navy.
She was sister to cruiser Aurora.
In August 1904 at the Battle of the Yellow Sea, after being struck by a torpedo, Pallada managed to make her way back to Port Arthur, and was thus unable to break through the Japanese blockade along with a number of other Russian cruisers. Her guns were removed to help strengthen the land defenses and most of her crew was reassigned to serve as infantry. Pallada was sunk by Japanese 11-inch siege howitzers on 8 December 1904.
After the end of the war, the wreck of Pallada was raised and towed to Japan, where it was repaired and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy as a prize of war. Renamed Tsugaru, she served as a training vessel and later as a minelayer until decommissioned in 1922.
Petropavlovsk exploding and sinking after hitting 2 chained mines from the Koryo Maru laid the previous night.
Russo Japanese war, 1904