Word: mikasa
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...harbor of Vladivostok. Togo in naval parlance "crossed the T"-led his ships in line across the top of the Russian column, with all his guns free to fire while the Russians were masked by their own ships. From the exposed fighting top of his flagship, the Mikasa, Togo saw the Russian battleships, their formation broken, turn in desperate circles, watched four of them go down. Next day he got the cruisers. Against 10,000 casualties and practically the entire Russian fleet sunk, captured or beached, Togo lost three torpedo-boats, less than 1,000 killed and wounded. Banzai...
Dark clouded the Yellow Sea. Long swaying fingers pointed skyward-masts. Aboard the Japanese flagship Mikasa the captains of the fleet faced their admiral across a lacquer tray containing the instruments used in committing harakiri...
...Saturday: Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States; Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, Admiral of the fleet, representing the Royal Navy and the British Government; Surgeon-General S. Suzuki of the Imperial Japanese Navy on the staff of Admiral Togo on board the flagship Mikasa in the battle of the Sea of Japan; Captain Ryan, R. N. naval attache to the British Embassy at Washington; Commander Isam Takeshita, Imperial Japanese Navy, naval attache to the Legation at Washington; and Captain Wyndham, British Consul at Boston. After visiting Memorial Hall, the Hamenway Gymnasium, the statue of John...
...They are: Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, Admiral of the Fleet, representing the Royal Navy and the British Government, Surgeon-General S. Suzuki of the Imperial Japanese Navy, on the staff of Admiral Togo on board the flagship. Mikasa in the battle of the Sea of Japan, Captain Ryan, R.N., naval attache to the British Embassy at Washington. Commander Isam Takeshita, Imperial Japanese Navy, naval attache to the Legation at Washington, and Captain Wyndham, British Consul at Boston. After visiting the University, the party, with President and Mrs. Eliot...