asagao

Updated: June 22, 2025

The last ship, the Asagao Maru, was scarcely less unfortunate; for a shell struck her rudder as she neared the harbour, and rendered her unmanageable, so that she went ashore close under Golden Hill, and her crew, refusing to surrender, were killed, to a man.

Harry Collingwood - Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War