Battle of Tsushima

Period

1905

Region

Japan

Category

War

The Battle of Tsushima was the final naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought on 27–28 May 1905 in the Tsushima Strait. A devastating defeat for the Imperial Russian Navy, the battle was the only decisive engagement ever fought between modern steel battleship fleets and the first in which wireless telegraphy (radio) played a critically important role. The battle was described by contemporary Sir George Clarke as by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar. The battle is known in Japan as the Naval Battle of the Sea of Japan.

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