Japan continued modernizing Izumi and included her in a major 1901 fleet exercise that tested the expanding navy. During the Russo-Japanese War she joined the patrol line south of Dalny Bay after the cruiser Akashi struck a mine. Izumi was assigned to support auxiliary cruisers watching the Tsushima Strait for the approaching Russian fleet. That role placed an elderly protected cruiser at the front of Japan's operational information system.
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Izumi shifts from fleet exercises to wartime scouting
Follow the modernized cruiser from Japan's large 1901 exercise into scouting and patrol duties against Russia.