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□ Anonymous 08/12/14(Tue)15:27:26 No.22354207 File: U SHUDNT OF WRON No 22354207 3,24272285175 22354277>>22355175>-223570212-223586642-223715682-223723842-22379035 GED THE B...).gif (912 KB, 397x312) >Russo-Japanese War Pacific Fleet gets bottled up in Vladivostok, Russian land forces getting BTFO >Admiralty decides to send the Baltic Fleet to the Pacific to save the day >six battleships, most modern warships Russia has >crews and ships completely unprepared for combat the battleship Oryol sinks in the harbor before they even leave LONG LIVE QUEEN ELIZABETH >finally make it out into the North Sea behind schedule in autumn 1904 >Britain is Japan's ally, not at war but suspected of aiding the Japanese somehow because you can't trust merchants midnight on the North Sea, Dogger Bank off the East Coast of England >suddenly, the supply freighter Kamchatka signals that she is under attack by torpedo boats PANIC jpg entire fleet comes about and steams straight into save their comrade, guns blazing オhe cruisers Aurora and Dmitri Donskoy are misidentified as Japanese and hit repeatedly by friendly re killing a sailor and a ship's Chaplain snumerous cruisers report being hit by torpedoes, begin emergency maneuvers オhe battleship Borodino reports being boarded by Japanese forces, crew attempt to abandon ship >20 minutes of panicked firing later, someone signals to cease fire >searchlights illuminate a tiny cluster of unarmed, severely distressed British fishing trawlers, one slowly sinking three Englishmen dead >oops Russian fleet decides to just keep sailing and pretend nothing happened next morning, trawlers limp home, the Royal Navy absolutely flips their s--- and raises steam on the entire Channel Fleet suddenly the Russians find their six-battleship fleet being pursued by TWENTY-EIGHT battleships >surrounded and forced to park off Spain until St. Petersburg finally apologizes and gives Britain enough money not to sink their entire navy as revenge If you're counting, you'll have noticed that the Russians only managed a 2:3 kill ratio against unarmed fishermen. The Oryol fired 500 shells and hit nothing. This is the fleet they expected to save Vladivostok from the Japanese. □ Anonymous 08/12/14(Tue)1 9:34:24 No.22357021 File: tsushima.jpg (70 KB, 512x323) >-223618272-223620962-223623792-223635212-22363923>>22379035 >>22354207 The Baltic Fleet (or "2nd Pacific Squadron") was comedy f------ gold all the way from St. Petersburg to Tsushima >fleet preparing to set sail, when a mysterious submarine is found in a crate aboard an American clipper >base goes on full alert because it must be an attempted Japanese sneak attack!!! turns out the Russian Admiralty bought a submarine but forgot to tell anyone in the fleet or the port authority >Bongs finally let the fleet go after holding them hostage at Tangiers under the guns of half the RN >Circumnavigating the Cape of Good Hope, support freighters and transports keep falling out due to mechanical failure Baltic Fleet finally reaches Madagascar, only to find a message ordering them to hold there indefinitely turns out the Admiralty decided to dispatch reinforcements (all old, broken-down ships which the fleet commander had explicitly refused) with orders to "Locate the Baltic Fleet, whose course and heading are unknown to us.." 2 months sitting in port at Madagascar in summertime >all crews are confined to ships the whole time four different Torpedo Destroyers lost to mechanical failures just from sitting at anchor >three separate mutinies by p----- off, diseased crewmen >reinforcements still not there >decide to hold gunnery practice severy single battleship misses their targets on every salvo >exactly one hit scored, on the tug towing the target ship gunnery practice is aborted early because it turns out the Admiralty didn't issue enough ammunition for the battleships, while Kamchatka suddenly starts signaling that she's sinking for no reason and one of the cruisers has to stop practice because of a "very large snake" wrapped around the breech of their fore battery >dozens of crew dead of malaria, decide to hold funeral at sea Borodino accidentally uses live ammunition for the salute >hits the Aurora, again reinforcements finally arrive ur f----- now, cyka nips >Tsushima ensues

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