Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: he kaipuke pakanga i mua i te whakawehi i hangaia mo te Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) i te mutunga o te 1890s. I tapaina i muri i te Maunga Mikasa i Nara, Japan, i mahi te kaipuke hei rangatira mo te Vice Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō puta noa i te Pakanga Russo-Japanese o 1904-1905, tae atu ki te Pakanga o Port Arthur i te ra tuarua o te pakanga me te Pakanga o Port Arthur.
Ko ngā pakanga o te Moana Kōwhai me Tsushima. I nga ra i muri mai o te mutunga o te pakanga, ka pupuhi te maheni a "Mikasa" i te tupono, a ka totohu te kaipuke. I whakaorangia ia, a, neke atu i te rua tau te roa o tana whakatika. I muri mai, i mahi te kaipuke hei kaipuke tiaki takutai i te Pakanga Tuatahi o te Ao, i tautoko hoki i nga ope Hapanihi i te Whakauru o Siberia i te Pakanga a Russia.