Reflections, Historic and Other, Suggested by the Battle of the Japan Sea [reproduced by permission from the Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute]; with Description of the Battle of the Sea of Japan on the 27th-28th May, 1905, with diagrams and a chart. Translated by permission from the May No. of the Marine Rundschau by Captain R. H. Anstruther, R. N.
London: Royal United Services Institute, 1906. 2 Articles Reprinted or removed from Volume L. of the Proceedings of the Royal United Services Institute. Wraps. Two reprints or disbound from original journal issue; Pages 1328-1346 [footnotes and illustration] and pages [1127], 1128-1148 [footnotes and maps labeled Plates 7, 8. and 9]. Maps have color. Plate 7 is also labeled Diagram 4 and presents information on a naval encounter between Russian and Japanese fleets. Plate 8 is also labeled Diagram 7 and presents information on a naval encounter between Russian and Japanese fleets, and Plate 9 is a Chart of the Battle of the Sea of Japan, 27th and 28th May, 1905. Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914) was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 (1890) won immediate recognition, especially in Europe, and with its successor, The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812 (1892), made him world-famous and perhaps the most influential American author of the nineteenth century. In 1885, he was appointed as a lecturer in naval history and tactics at the Naval War College. College President Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce pointed Mahan in the direction of the study of sea power. Mahan met and befriended future president Theodore Roosevelt, then a visiting lecturer. Admiral Robert Hamilton Anstruther, C.M.G., Royal Navy, Retired (10 June, 1862 – 26 September, 1938) was an officer of the Royal Navy. In 1905, he was awarded an Interpreter's Certificate in German. Mahan wrote that The principal and determining features of the Battle of the Japan Sea have been made known to us by the official reports; the many details are wanting, and, as was justly remarked in a very able article in Blackwood's Magazine for last February, probably can never be supplied, the drama having passed too rapidly, and the actors having been too busily occupied, to take precise notes. The writer of the paper therefore devoted part of his space to an investigation of the problem, and to an attempt to reconstitute the earlier features of the engagement, as well as the subsequent phases. It is to this discussion that I owed the study embodied in the following plan, in which I have also availed myself of some of his data, more particularly with reference to the train of the guns of either party; but the particular line of inquiry which I have followed differs, I think, somewhat from his. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Russo-Japanese War, Battle of the Sea of Japan, Battle of the Japan Sea, Anstruther, Naval Operations, Admiral Togo, Rodjestvenski, Nebogatoff, Uschakoff, Navarin, Sissoi-Veliki, Izumrud, Enquist, Cruisers, Torpedo Boats
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