Russian coast defense ship Admiral Seniavin Admiral Seniavin ( ) , was a built for Imperial Russian Navy during the 1890s . She was one of eight Russia n pre - dreadnought battleship s captured by the Imperial Japanese Navy from the Russians during the Russo - Japanese War of 1904 - 1905 . She subsequently served in the Japanese Navy under the name until sunk as a target in 1936 . In Russian service . Initially assigned to the Russian Baltic Fleet , she was later reclassed as a coastal defence ship . The three obsolete " Ushakovs " ( , , and " Admiral Senyavin " ) were rejected for inclusion in the " Second Pacific Squadron " assembled by Admiral Rozhestvensky to reinforce the existing Russian squadron based at Port Arthur after the outbreak of the Russo - Japanese War as Rozhestvensky felt they were unsuitable for such an extreme blue - water operation . Nevertheless all three were selected to form part of Admiral Nebogatov ' s " Third Pacific Squadron " which was subsequently sent out to reinforce Rozhestvensky on his journey to the Far East after political agitation following his departure . The two Russian squadrons finally met and united at Cam Ranh Bay after a cruise that became known as the " Voyage of the Damned " , and from there Rozhestvensky set course through the South China Sea towards the Korea Strait , where they were discovered by the Japanese . At the resulting Battle of Tsushima ( 27 – 28 May 1905 ) , the three ships survived the first phase of the engagement on the evening of 27 May largely due to the Japanese concentrating their efforts on Rozhestvensky ' s modern battleships ( concentrated in the First and Second Divisions of the Russian squadron ) and their subsequent almost - total destruction left the Russian fleet in tatters . Nebogatov ' s Third Division was largely able to keep itself together during the night , although the " Seniavin ' s " sister ship strayed from formation and sunk by Japanese torpedo es . The morning of 28 May found the Russian survivors surrounded by an apparently undamaged Japanese force , and Nebogatov surrendered . Thus " Senyavn " and " Apraksin " were captured as prizes of war . Japanese service . " General - Admiral Graf Apraxin " became the " Okinoshima " and " Admiral Senyavin " was commissioned into the Japanese Navy as the 2nd class Coastal Defense Vessel " Mishima " . " Mishima " was named for the small island of Mishima , offshore from Hagi in Yamaguchi prefecture , not far from the location of the Battle of Tsushima . " Mishima " was part of the Japanese Second Fleet in World War I , participating in the Battle of Tsingtao against the small number of German ships left behind by Admiral von Spee ' s East Asia Squadron " . After the end of the war , " Mishima " supported the Japanese Siberian Intervention against the Bolshevik Red Army in eastern Russia by covering the landings of Japanese forces , and by acting as an ice breaker to keep the sea lanes between Japan and Vladivostok open . On 1 April 1921 , " Mishima " was re - classified as a submarine tender . " Mishima " was decommissioned on 10 October 1935 . She was expended as a gunnery target and sunk in September 1936 off Kushima , Miyazaki . External links .