Correct me if I’m wrong.
Wasn’t the Russian Navy the biggest navy up to this event(1904-5 Russo-Japanese War). If I remember right from my tiny amount of history this War pretty much destroyed most of the Russian Navy or a certain part of it, kind of like what happened during the the Battle of Midway during WWII.
That I don’t know...................
It was big, but outdated and badly led. The Japanese studied the British and American navies closely, as those were the best in the world, and consequently had pretty much state of the art equipment and good leadership selected on the basis of talent rather than relation to the Czar.