Who captained the "Oryol" during Battle of Tsushima Strait?
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Nikolay Yung Nikolay Viktorovich Yung (Russian: Никола́й Ви́кторович Юнг ; 4 November [O.S. 23 October] 1855  – 29 May [O.S. 16 May] 1905 ) was a career officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, noted for his participation in the Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War as captain of the battleship "Oryol" .
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Battle of Tsushima The Battle of Tsushima (Russian: Цусимское сражение , "Tsusimskoye srazheniye"), also known as the Battle of Tsushima Strait and the Naval Battle of the Sea of Japan (Japanese: 日本海海戦, "Nihonkai-Kaisen") in Japan, was a major naval battle fought between Russia and Japan during the Russo-Japanese War. It was naval history's only decisive sea battle fought by modern steel battleship fleets, and the first naval battle in which wireless telegraphy (radio) played a critically important role. It has been characterized as the "dying echo of the old era – for the last time in the history of naval warfare, ships of the line of a beaten fleet surrendered on the high seas".
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Gleb Shishmaryov Gleb Semyonovich Shishmaryov (aka Gleb Semenovich Shishmarev) (Russian: Глеб Семёнович Шишмарёв ) (1781 - November 3, 1835, Saint Petersburg) was a rear admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy. He is reputed for having surveyed the then little-known coast of Alaska as navigator. In 1815–1818 he accompanied Otto von Kotzebue on his voyage to Alaska and around the world.
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Mikhail Vasilyev (explorer) Mikhail Nikolayevich Vasilyev (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Васильев ; 1770 – June 23, 1847) was a Russian explorer and vice admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy. He is reputed for having surveyed the then little-known coast of Alaska as navigator. Vasiliev was sent by the Russian Imperial Hydrographic Service in 1819 to explore the northern parts of the Pacific Ocean and particularly the area around the Bering Strait. Certain geographic features of the Alaskan coast, like the Lindenberg Peninsula and Sealion Island were named by him in the maps that were subsequently published.
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Tōgō Heihachirō Marshal-Admiral Marquis Tōgō Heihachirō, OM, GCVO (東郷 平八郎; 27 January 184830 May 1934), was a "gensui" or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. He was termed by Western journalists as "the Nelson of the East".
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Japanese cruiser Suzuya (1934) Suzuya (鈴谷 ) was the third of four vessels in the "Mogami" class of heavy cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was named after the Suzuya river on Karafuto (Sakhalin).
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Tsushima Maru Tsushima Maru (対馬丸) was a Japanese passenger/cargo ship that was sunk by the submarine USS "Bowfin" during World War II, while carrying hundreds of schoolchildren from Okinawa to Kagoshima.
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MV Selendang Ayu M/V Selendang Ayu, IMO number: 9145528 was a Malaysian-registered Panamax bulk cargo ship chartered by the IMC Group. It ran aground off Unalaska Island in western Alaska's Aleutian Islands on 8 December 2004 after its engine failed. Six crew members died when a rescue helicopter was engulfed by a breaking wave; the ship broke in two, resulting in a large oil spill.
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Martin Spangberg Martin Spangberg or Martyn Petrovich Shpanberg (Мартын Петрович Шпанберг) was a Danish-Russian naval lieutenant in Russian service who took part with his compatriot Vitus Bering in both Kamchatka expeditions as second in command. He is best known for finding a sea route to Japan and exploring the Kuril Islands (one of which, Shikotan, was renamed Shpanberg by the Russians in 1796).
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Nagato-class battleship The "Nagato"-class battleships (長門型戦艦 , Nagato-gata senkan ) were a pair of dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War I, although they were not completed until after the end of the war. "Nagato" , the lead ship of the class, frequently served as a flagship. Both ships carried supplies for the survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923. They were modernized in 1933–36 with improvements to their armor and machinery and a rebuilt superstructure in the pagoda mast style. "Nagato" and her sister ship "Mutsu" briefly participated in the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and "Nagato" was the flagship of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 that began the Pacific War.
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Sinking of Oryong 501 The Sinking of "Oryong No 501" (Hangul: 501 오룡호 침몰 사고 ) occurred on December 1, 2014, in the Bering Sea. The fishing trawler sank with an official crew of 60, including 35 Indonesians, 13 Filipinos, 11 South Koreans, and a Russian inspector. However Russian sources state that there were 62 aboard.
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Monzo Akiyama Monzo Akiyama (秋山 門造, "Akiyama Monzō") (December 30, 1891, Nagaoka – January 25, 1944, Kwajalein) was a Japanese Rear Admiral who served in World War II. He was killed in action during the Battle of Kwajalein.
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Japanese submarine I-401 The "Sen Toku"-class I-401 (伊号第四百一潜水艦 ) was once the largest submarine in the world. It was commanded by Lieutenant Commander Nobukiyo Nambu of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Capable of carrying three two-seat Aichi M6A1 "Seiran" (Mountain Haze) float torpedo bombers, the "Sen Toku"s were built to launch a surprise air strike against the Panama Canal.
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Thomas C. Kinkaid Thomas Cassin Kinkaid (3 April 1888 – 17 November 1972) served as an admiral in the United States Navy during World War II. He built a reputation as a "fighting admiral" in the aircraft carrier battles of 1942 and commanded the Allied forces in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. He was Commander Allied Naval Forces and the Seventh Fleet under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur in the Southwest Pacific Area, where he conducted numerous amphibious operations, and commanded an Allied fleet during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, largest naval battle of World War II and the last naval battle between battleships in history.
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Bertram J. Rodgers Bertram Joseph Rodgers (March 19, 1894 – November 30, 1983) was a highly decorated Vice Admiral in the United States Navy during World War II. He received his Navy Cross as a Captain of "USS Salt Lake City" during the Aleutian Islands Campaign.
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Ivan Travkin Ivan Vasilyevich Travkin (Russian: Иван Васильевич Травкин ; September 11 [O.S. August 30] 1908 , Naro-Fominsk, Russia – June 14, 1985, Moscow) was a Soviet submarine commander, Captain 1st Rank, Hero of the Soviet Union (April 20, 1945).
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Kōshū (survey ship) Kōshū" (膠州 ) was a survey ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. From 1904–1914 and 1915–1921, it served as a cargo ship; from 1921 until 1940, it acted as a survey ship. It sailed as the Michael Jebsen" from 1904–1914. It is named after Jiaozhou Bay in China ("Kōshū" in Japanese).
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Fyodor Ushakov Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov (Russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Ушако́в ; ] ; 24 February [O.S. 13 February] 1745 – 14 October [O.S. 2 October] 1817 ) was the most illustrious Russian naval commander and admiral of the 18th century.
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Battle off Ulsan The naval Battle off Ulsan (Japanese: 蔚山沖海戦 "Urusan'oki kaisen"; Russian: Бой в Корейском проливе, "Boi v Koreiskom prolive"), also known as the Battle of the Japanese Sea or Battle of the Korean Strait, took place on 14 August 1904 between cruiser squadrons of the Imperial Russian Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Russo-Japanese War, four days after the Battle of the Yellow Sea.
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SS Ryūsei Maru SS "Ryusei Maru" (隆西丸 , Ryūsei Maru ) was a Japanese transport ship that was sunk by USS "Rasher" on 25 February 1944. Nearly 5,000 lives were lost.
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Nemuro Strait Nemuro Strait, also called Notsuke Strait and Kunashirsky Strait (Russian: Кунаширский пролив ), is a strait, located at , separating Kunashir Island of the Kuril Islands, Russia (claimed by Japan) from the Shiretoko Peninsula, Hokkaidō, Japan.
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Battle of Sunda Strait The Battle of Sunda Strait was a naval battle which occurred during World War II in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java, and Sumatra. On the night of 28 February – 1 March 1942, the Australian light cruiser HMAS "Perth" and the American heavy cruiser USS "Houston" faced a major Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) task force. After a fierce battle of several hours duration, both Allied ships were sunk. Five Japanese ships were sunk, three of which by friendly fire.