Battle of Tsushima

The Battle of Tsushima was the final naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought on 27–28 May 1905 in the Tsushima Strait.^¹ 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.^¹ The battle was described by contemporary Sir George Clarke as "by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar".^¹ The battle is known in Japan as the Naval Battle of the Sea of Japan.^¹