Reshitelny

Captured

Imperial Russian Navy, then Imperial Japanese Navy

Type	Destroyer
War	Russo-Japanese War
Main guns	1 × 3″ gun

Service

1903–1904	Reshitelny	Russia
from 1904	Akatsuki Seized at Chefoo	Japan

Carried dispatches to the neutral port of Chefoo after the Yellow Sea, where Japanese destroyers boarded and seized her. She fought against her old navy at Tsushima as Akatsuki.

The Imperial Russian Navy destroyer Russian destroyer Reshitel‘nyi 2 at Chefoo, China, sometime prior to her capture on August 1904 by Japan during the w:Russo-Japanese War. Photo: Unattributed, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

1 × 75 mm gun
3 × 47 mm guns
2 × single 381 mm (15 in) torpedo tubes, 2 x torpedoes (as built)
2 x single 450 mm (18 in) torpedo tubes, 2 x torpedoes (1905)

Builder	Nevsky Works, Igorsky Arsenal, or Izhora Works, Saint Petersburg, Russia (see text)
Laid down	1897 or 1900 (see text)
Launched	26 July [O.S. 13 July] 1901
Commissioned	27 June [O.S. 14 June] 1903
Displacement	258 long tons (262 t)
Length	57.91 m (190 ft 0 in)
Speed	25.75 knots (47.69 km/h; 29.63 mph)
Complement	52 (4 officers, 48 enlisted men)

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

26 July [O.S. 13 July] 1901

Battle of the Yellow Sea

Captured

10 August 1904

Seized by the Japanese in the neutral port of Chefoo

Renamed IJN Akatsuki

Japan

12 August 1904 · Seized at Chefoo

Fate

Captured

Scrapped 1918 or discarded 1919 (see text)