Word: torpedoed
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...Berengaria that supercharged torpedo of Japanese diplomacy, Rear Admiral and Special Envoy Isoroku Yamamoto. It is no secret whatever in Tokyo that the Japanese Admiralty has spent most of the summer priming Admiral Yamamoto to blow up the London negotiations unless Japan gets every single thing she wants...
...question. As a result the U. S. Delegation is fitted out with an elaborate sop to be offered at the right moment to Japan, a positively devilish sop in the opinion of Japanese sea dogs who hoped and prayed last week that it will not water down their human torpedo into a damp squib...
...chief, Admiral Heihachiro Togo, knew that Admiral Rozhestvensky was a brave, capable and intelligent adversary. He knew that the Russian fleet was slightly superior numerically to his own: eight battleships, twelve cruisers, nine destroyers to five battleships, three second-line battleships, 23 cruisers and a flotilla of gunboats, torpedo boats and destroyers. But Admiral Togo also knew that Admiral Rozhestvensky's fleet was undermanned and under-provisioned, that all its bottoms were foul from its long sea voyage, that it could not carry enough coal to dodge all the way around Japan to Vladivostok with the possibility of being...
...yards, the two fleets steaming in parallel columns like a classic exercise in an Annapolis textbook. In three quarters of an hour the leading Russian ships were out of action and Admiral Rozhestvensky gravely wounded. After nightfall when the Russian fleet was in hopeless disorder, the Japanese torpedo boats struck...
...little sea hornets. By next noon four battleships, seven cruisers, five destroyers and five auxiliary ships were at the bottom of the Japan Sea. Four more battleships and two hospital ships had surrendered. Four thousand Russians were killed or drowned and 7,000 more surrendered. Japanese losses were three torpedo boats, 116 killed, 538 wounded. The Battle of Tsushima Straits decided the naval mastery of the Eastern Pacific, sweeping Russia from the sea and placing Japan overnight among the world's great powers. Never before or since has the price of a great naval victory been so cheap...