CASUALTY RECORD // February 9, 1904
Battle of Chemulpo Bay
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
1 sides catalogued · combined 220 estimated
Empire russe
220
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Chemulpo Bay occurred on February 9, 1904, off the coast of present-day Incheon, Korea, in the opening phase of the Russo-Japanese War. The engagement resulted in 220 Russian casualties, marking one of the early direct confrontations between Japanese forces under Uryū Sotokichi and Russian forces under Vsevolod Rudnev. As part of Japan's broader naval offensive at the war's outset, actions in Korean coastal waters were critical to establishing Japanese maritime dominance and securing the peninsula as a staging ground for land operations against Russian positions in Manchuria.
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