Tōgō Masamichi
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Baron Tōgō Masamichi (東郷正路, 19 April 1852 – 4 January 1906) was an admiral in the early Imperial Japanese Navy.[1]
Biography
Tōgō was born to a samurai family of Fukui Domain.[1] He was sent by the domain to the predecessor of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy when it was still located in Osaka, but left without graduating, and then entered the fourth class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy located in Tsukiji, Tokyo and was commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy.
He served in his early career on the corvette Tsukuba, gunboat Kenko and the ironclads Ryūjō and Fuso.[2] He was promoted to lieutenant in 1885 and lieutenant commander in 1890. He later served on the staff of the Readiness Fleet. Tōgō was then executive officer on the cruiser Yaeyama, ironclad Kongō, and cruiser Chiyoda before receiving his first command, the training ship Manju, in 1893.[2]
During the
In 1897, Tōgō was appointed chief of staff of Kure Naval District and in 1899 oversaw the completion of the new armored cruiser Yakumo at AG Vulcan Stettin in Germany and her first voyage to Japan. In 1902, he was promoted to rear admiral and served as commandant of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy.[1]
Immediately before the start of the
References
- ISBN 0-8108-4927-5.
- Jukes, Geoffry (2002). The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905. Osprey Essential Histories. ISBN 978-1-84176-446-7.
External links
- Nishida, Hiroshi. "People of the IJN". Imperial Japanese Navy. Archived from the original on 2013-01-04.
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