Hitachi Maru Incident

Hitachi Maru Incident
Part of the Russo-Japanese War
Hitachi Maru in 1898
Date 15 June 1904 Location Tsushima Strait Result Russian victory
Belligerents
Empire of Japan	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Inosuke Higo † Genjiro Suchi † Giichi Tamura †	Petr Bezobrazov
Strength
3 unarmed transports	3 armored cruisers
Casualties and losses
2 ships sunk 1 grounded 1,334 killed 112 wounded	None

The Hitachi Maru Incident (常陸丸事件, Hitachi-maru jiken) was a maritime incident which occurred during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, in which three Japanese transports were sunk in a Russian commerce raiding sortie by a Vladivostok-based armored cruiser squadron of the Imperial Russian Navy.