Admiral Rozhestvensky was knocked out of action by a shell fragment that struck his skull.

The wounded Admiral Rozhestvensky was a prisoner in a Japanese hospital.

It was also used as a staging area for the Imperial Russian fleet under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky prior to the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, and by the Japanese Imperial Navy in preparation for the invasion of Malaysia in 1942.

Zinovy Petrovich Rozhestvensky () ( – January 14, 1909 ) was an admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy.

In July 1877 while still assigned to the Vesta, he engaged and damaged a Turkish warship, the Fethi-Bulend, and Rozhestvensky was awarded the Order of Saint Vladimir and Order of St George for this action.

Prior to the war against Japan, Rozhestvensky was commander of the Baltic Fleet.

Admiral Rozhestvensky, a veteran of the Turkish war, had a fiery temper when dealing with a subordinate, and both officers and men knew to stand clear of " Mad Dog " when a subordinate either disobeyed orders, was incompetent, or both.

During the battle, Admiral Rozhestvensky was wounded in the head by a shell fragment.

The Tsar's court was fully aware that Admiral Nikolai Nebogatov had surrendered the Russian fleet, as Rozhestvensky had been wounded and unconscious for most of the battle, and was very reluctant to accept his statements of responsibility.

Nonetheless, Admiral Rozhestvensky was adamant in his defense of his subordinate commanders and maintained total responsibility, pleading guilty to losing the battle.

Even without fighting experience in the Orient, Admiral Rozhestvensky was the one man with the personality, skill, and determination to sail an untested battleship fleet on an unprecedented voyage to the other side of the world.

During the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, the Russian Baltic fleet under Admiral Rozhestvensky, after making an almost year-long trip to East Asia from the Baltic coast, was crushed by the Japanese under Admiral Togo Heihachiro at the Battle of Tsushima.

In September 1904, a squadron under the command of Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky was sent around Africa – stopping in French, German and Portuguese colonial ports Tangier, Dakar, Gabon, Baía dos Tigres, Angra Pequeña, and Nossi Be ( Madagascar ), then across the Indian Ocean to Cam Ranh Bay in French Indochina and then northward to its doomed encounter with the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Tsushima.

Rozhestvensky was severely wounded during the battle, and was taken prisoner.

Although both battleship fleets were on nearly equal footing in regards to the latest in battleship technology, with the British warship designs representing the Imperial Japanese Navy, and predominately the French designs being favored by the Russian fleets ; it was the combat experience that Togo had accrued in the 1904 naval battles of Port Arthur and the Yellow Sea, that gave him the edge over the un-tested Admiral Rozhestvensky during the Battle of Tsushima on 27 May.

In this battle the Japanese fleet under Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō destroyed two-thirds of the Russian fleet, under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, which had traveled over to reach the Far East.

Rozhestvensky had only two alternatives, " a charge direct, in line abreast ", or to commence " a formal pitched battle.

Rozhestvensky claimed full responsibility for the fiasco ; as he had been wounded and unconscious during the last part of the battle, the Tsar commuted his death sentence.

Japanese Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō drew upon his experiences from the battles of Port Arthur and the Yellow Sea, and this time would not split his fires nor engage Rozhestvensky at excessive ranges, as he had done with Admiral Vitgeft at the Yellow Sea the year previously.

Other than surrender or retreat, Rozhestvensky had but two choices ; fight a pitched battle or charge Togo's battleline.

Rozhestvensky's opponent however, Admiral Togo, had been the adversary of Russia's combat experienced admirals during the current war, but he, unlike his Russian naval counterparts, would be present on the battlefield, to exploit those lessons learned from previous engagements against Rozhestvensky ; in the end, leaving him no choice but to fight or retreat.

The Russians had already been preparing to reinforce their fleet the previous year by sending elements of the Baltic Sea fleet ( The Second Pacific Squadron ) under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky around the Cape of Good Hope to Asia, a voyage of over.

By the end of the day on 27 May, nearly all of Rozhestvensky's battleships were sunk, including his flagship, the Prince Suvorov ; and on the following day, Admiral Nebogatov, who had relieved Rozhestvensky due to his wounds, surrendered the remainder of the fleet to Admiral Togo.

The squadron departed on 15 October 1904 under the command of Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky.

# See Pleshakov, Constantine " The Tsar's Last Armada " Basic Books 2002, for details of the 1904-1905 voyage of the Russian naval armada to the Tsushima Strait under the leadership of Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky.

He would instead, with the proper use of reconnaissance vessels and wireless communications position his battle fleet in such a way as to " preserve his interior lines of movement ", which would allow him to have shorter distances to cover while causing Rozhestvensky to have longer distances to travel, regardless of battleship speeds.

Rozhestvensky graduated from the Sea Cadet Corps in 1868 and the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy in 1873. he initially served with the Baltic Fleet as a gunnery officer.

In 1906, Rozhestvensky faced court martial for the disaster, along with each of his surviving battleship commanders.

" Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky chose the latter, resulting in his total defeat in naval history's only decisive fleet action fought solely by modern battleships.

Admiral Rozhestvensky chose Tsushima in an effort to simplify his route.

Neither Nebogatov nor Rozhestvensky were shot when they returned home to Russia.

The then Lieutenant Rozhestvensky volunteered to lead the first attack against the Turkish warships, but his torpedo boat became caught up in the rope boom defenses that protected the enemy ships.

Tsar Nicholas II ordered Rozhestvensky to take the Baltic Fleet to East Asia to protect the Russian naval base of Port Arthur.

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