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[[File:Japanese destroyer Satsuki in 1905.jpg|thumb|right|Captured Russian destroyer ''Byedoviy'' at [[Sasebo Naval District|Sasebo]] on 3 June 1905 {{efn|{{coord|33.161794|N|129.700501|E}}}} before she became [[:ja:皐月 (戦利駆逐艦)|IJN ''Satsuki'']].]]
Russian destroyer [[Russian destroyer Buinyi|''Buyniy'']], after rescuing the squadron command including Admiral Rozhestvensky from the burning {{ship|Russian battleship|Knyaz Suvorov||2}} at 17:30 during the day battle on the 27th, found cruiser [[Russian cruiser Dmitrii Donskoi|''Donskoi'']], destroyers [[List of destroyers of the Imperial Russian Navy#Buinyi class (350/450 tons), 10 ships|''Byedoviy'']] and [[List of destroyers of the Imperial Russian Navy#Groznyi class / Project of 1903 (420 tons), 3 ships|''Grozniy'']] in convoy on the morning of 28 May. Rozhestvensky chose ''Byedoviy'' to move the fleet command officers and himself as ''Buyniy'' had serious damages and ''Donskoi'', being an old ship, was very slow. (Later in the afternoon, ''Buyniy'' was sunk by gunfire from ''Donskoi'' after taking the crew aboard.) Leaving the struggling ''Buyniy'' and the slow ''Donskoi''{{efn|''Buiniy'' had boiler and
Japanese destroyers {{ship|Japanese destroyer|Sazanami|1899|2}} and {{ship|Japanese destroyer|Kagerō|1899|2}} had mechanical issues during the night battle on the 27th and had to fix the problems at the [[Port of Ulsan]].{{efn|where [[destroyer tender]] / [[depot ship#Motor torpedo boat depot ships|torpedo boat depot ship]] with repair equipment/personnel [[Order of battle at the Battle of Tsushima#Special Duty Squadron|''Kasuga Maru'']] was.<ref>{{cite web|title=Battle of Sea of Japan|url=https://www.weblio.jp/wkpja/content/日本海海戦_戦闘|language=ja}}</ref>}} Both destroyers finished their temporary repair work by the morning of the 28th and left the port together. They spotted the two Russian destroyers on the way to join the rest of the Combined Fleet and engaged at 15:25.{{sfn|Novikov-Priboy|1937|loc=Book 2, Chapter 3}}{{efn|Lieutenant Tsukamoto Katsukuma onboard ''Sazanami'', who spotted the Russian destroyers at 14:15, used to be assigned to ''Mikasa''. He had seen Admiral Tōgō many times and admired the state of the art binoculars{{efn|[[Carl Zeiss AG|Carl Zeiss]] 1904 Marine-Glas m.Revolver zwei vergrößerungen x5 und x10 {{cite web|title=Battleship Mikasa and Zeiss Binoculars|url=http://tohmegane.g2.xrea.com/oldbino7.html|language=ja}}}} used by the admiral. He spent 350 Yen (equivalent to one year's Lieutenant salary) of personal funds to purchase the same model, and the binoculars had reached him stationed at [[Takeshiki Guard District|Tsushima]] from the agent in Tōkyō before this battle.{{sfn|Shiba|2014}}}}
Destroyer ''Grozniy'' increased speed being chased by ''Kagerō'', but ''Byedoviy'' slowed down and stopped in the face of firing and approaching ''Sazanami'' while raising a white flag.{{sfn|Corbett|2015b}}{{efn|According to Novikov-Priboy,{{sfn|Novikov-Priboy|1937|loc=Book 2, Chapter 3}} ''Byedoviy'' raised a white table cloth on the foremast, Red Cross flag on the rear mast, and had lowered the [[Ensign of the Russian Navy|Saint Andrew's Cross]] from the stern flag pole, by the instruction of the Flag Captain Clapier de Colongue (the most senior officer onboard the destroyer after the injured admiral, outranking the ship commander Captain 2nd rank Nikolai Baranov), who reasoned ''Byedoviy'' had become a hospital ship.}} ''Grozniy'' was able to keep sufficient distance from ''Kagerō'', exchanging just a few long-distance shots at about 18:30, before nightfall.{{sfn|Imperial Defence|1920|p=785}} She became one of the three warships reaching Vladivostok after surviving the battle.
The Combined Fleet command could not believe the news when cruiser {{ship|Japanese cruiser|Akashi||2}}, which rendezvoused ''Sazanami'' on the morning of the next day, sent a radio telegraph message about the capture of Admiral Rozhestvensky, as they were certain to have sunk ''Knyaz Suvorov'' and assumed the squadron commander went down with the flagship.{{sfn|Shiba|2014}} But cruiser ''Akashi'', accompanied by ''Sazanami'' and ''Kagerō'', arrived at Sasebo port in the morning of 30 May with ''Byedoviy'' in tow, with not only the injured admiral but also the surviving members of the Russian fleet command onboard.{{efn|name=Suvorov}}{{sfn|Shiba|2014}}{{sfn|Novikov-Priboy|1937|loc=Book 2, Chapter 3}}
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