Nashiba Tokioki
Baron Nashiba Tokioki was an admiral in the early Imperial Japanese Navy, noted for his role in the battleship naval disaster of 1904.Biography
Nashiba was born in Chōshū domain, Shikishima, and, cruiser, and dispatch-vessel Tatsuta to relieve the Japanese blockading force off Port Arthur. On the morning of 15 May, the squadron proceeded to patrol to east by north across the mouth of the port. This course brought the Japanese fleet into a minefield previously laid by the Russian minelayer Amur. Both Hatsuse and Yashima struck naval mines and were lost in the greatest Japanese naval disasters during the Russo-Japanese War.
After the war, Nashiba served in a number of staff positions at Yokosuka Naval District and Sasebo Naval District, and was appointed commander of the Mako Guard District. He was promoted the vice admiral in March 1907, and retired from active service in October of the same year.
In September 1907, Nashiba was ennobled with the title of baron under the kazoku peerage system and served in the House of Peers from 1911 to 1916.
