Hitachi Maru Incident
{'<entity_0>': 'Hitachi Maru Incident', '<entity_1>': 'Russo-Japanese War', '<entity_2>': 'Korea Strait', '<entity_3>': '15 June 1904'}
[['Hitachi Maru Incident', 'part of', 'Russo-Japanese War'], ['Hitachi Maru Incident', 'point in time', '15 June 1904'], ['Hitachi Maru Incident', 'location', 'Korea Strait']]
The <entity_0> (常陸丸事件, Hitachi-maru jiken) was a maritime incident which occurred during the <entity_1> of 1904–1905, in which three Japanese transports were sunk in a Russian commerce raiding sortie by a Vladivostok-based armored cruiser squadron of the Imperial Russian Navy. Russian Vice Admiral Petr Bezobrazov departed Vladivostok on 12 <entity_3> with Rossia, Rurik, and Gromoboi under orders to proceed through the eastern Tsushima Channel in the <entity_2>, cruise for two days on known transport routes, and to then double back through the western channel, after which he was to attempt to join his forces to the fleet still blockaded at Port Arthur.
['conflict', 'naval battle']