Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Memorial Ship Mikasa

The pre-dreadnought battleship Mikasa, preserved at Yokosuka, Japan, as the flagship from which Admiral Togo Heihachiro commanded the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Tsushima on 27 to 28 May 1905, where Russia’s Baltic Fleet was destroyed. Built by Vickers in Britain and commissioned 1902, she was decommissioned, gutted, and restored; opened as a memorial ship in 1925 and reopened in 1961 after wartime damage. She is the world’s only surviving pre-dreadnought.