Tsushima

The time of the Russo-Japanese War was prior to the introduction of the great ship Dreadnought in 1906 and so the battleships of the Russian and Japanese fleets have the lower number of guns, 4 is typical, that existed on the first-class ships of that time. Smaller ships such as the cruisers and destroyers are also modestly equipped in comparison with their counterparts of 1916 and there are no ships comparable to the British and German Battle Cruisers that sailed the North Sea. Still, the battles between fleets of the time were deadly enough, with the shorter engagement distances appearing to make up for the reduced lethality of the ships so that battles of the war are still very damaging and bloody affairs. Both sides had destroyers with their deadly torpedoes, which at that time was commonly a part of the armament of all ships up to the largest battleships of the day, and the Japanese also had a number of torpedo boats, which literal to their name do not appear to have any real capa