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 off the east coast of Korea in 1905 , ending the Russo-Japanese War .