Editing Battle of Tsushima (section)

===Night attacks===
At night, around 20:00, 21 [[destroyer]]s and 45 Japanese [[torpedo boat]]s{{efn|21 destroyers and 31 torpedo boats of the Combined Fleet, 4 torpedo boats from [[Kure Naval District]], and 10 torpedo boats from [[Takeshiki Guard District]].{{efn|name=order}}}} were thrown against the Russians.{{efn|After the war, Admiral Rozhestvensky was asked in a Russian court martial why he chose day time to pass the most dangerous zone of [[Tsushima Strait]]. His answer was "Because torpedo boats in the night is a greater risk for battleships."}} They were deployed initially from the north, east and west while being slightly visible, forcing the Russians, roughly in the order of cruisers, battleships and auxiliaries groups, to turn west.{{sfn|Semenoff|1907|page=160}} The Japanese were aggressive, continuing their attacks for three hours without a break; as a result, during the night there were a number of collisions between the small craft and Russian warships.{{efn|name=lighthouse}} The Russians were dispersed in small groups. By 23:00, it appeared that the Russians had vanished, but they revealed their positions to their pursuers by switching on their searchlights – ironically, the searchlights had been turned on to spot the attackers. The old battleship {{ship|Russian battleship|Navarin||2}} struck chained floating mines{{efn|name=mines}} laid in front and was forced to stop in order not to push the chain forward, inviting other floating mines on the chain in on herself.  She was consequently torpedoed four times and sunk. Out of a crew of 622, only three survived, one to be rescued by the Japanese and the other two by a British merchant ship.{{sfn|Corbett|2015b|p=304}}

The battleship {{ship|Russian battleship|Sissoi Veliky||2}} was badly damaged by a torpedo in the stern and was scuttled the next day. Two old [[armoured cruiser]]s – {{ship|Russian cruiser|Admiral Nakhimov|1885|2}} and {{ship|Russian cruiser|Vladimir Monomakh||2}} – were badly damaged, the former by a torpedo hit to the bow, the latter by colliding with a Japanese destroyer. They were both [[scuttled]] by their crews the next morning off [[Tsushima Island]], where they headed while taking on water.{{sfn|Wright|1976|pages=123–147}} The night attacks placed a great strain on the Russians, as they lost two battleships and two armoured cruisers, while the Japanese lost only three torpedo boats.{{sfn|Hutchinson|2018}}