The Battle of Tsushima was fought off the east coast of Korea in 1905 .
In September 1904 , a squadron under the command of Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky was sent around Africa ï¿½ stopping in French , German and Portuguese colonial ports Tangier , Dakar , Gabon , Baï¿½a dos Tigres , Angra Pequeï¿½a , and Nossi Be ( Madagascar ) , then across the Indian Ocean to Cam Ranh Bay in French Indochina and then northward to its doomed encounter with the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Tsushima .