Reshitel‘nyi (Решительный, English "Resolute") was a Sokol-class destroyer built for the Imperial Russian Navy at the beginning of the 20th century.

The Japanese opened gunfire on the Russian destroyers, preventing them from getting close enough to launch torpedoes, and they received orders to return to Port Arthur.

25–26 February] 1904, the 2nd Destroyer Detachment, consisting of Reshitel‘nyi and Steregushchiy, conducted a reconnaissance of either the Elliot Islands in the Yellow Sea or the inner harbor at Thornton Haven on the coast of China,[3] or perhaps both (sources are unclear).

[4] As they approached Port Arthur from the south-southeast they encountered another Japanese force consisting of the protected cruiser Chitose and destroyers Akebono, Sazanami, Shinonome, and Usugumo.

[4] As the Japanese moved to cut them off from Port Arthur, Reshitel‘nyi and Steregushchiy turned to starboard and made for the shelter of Russian minefields off Dalniy.

[4] The Russians scored a number of hits on the Japanese ships, but Steregushchiy suffered damage that caused her speed to drop off significantly.

[4] Aboard Reshitel‘nyi, Bosse was wounded, forcing her chief engineer to take command, and a shell hit knocked out one of her boilers, but she managed to keep her speed up and reach waters within range of Russian coastal artillery at daybreak.

[4] As Reshitel‘nyi again altered course toward Port Arthur, the coastal artillery opened fire on the Japanese and discouraged them from continuing the chase.

[4] Instead, the Japanese closed with Steregushchiy and opened an overwhelming fire on her in broad daylight,[4] reducing her to a motionless wreck with almost her entire crew dead or dying.

In the Battle of the Yellow Sea that day, the Russians suffered a defeat in which the squadron commander, Rear Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft, was killed.

[7] Reshitel‘nyi, now under the command of Lieutenant Mikhail Sergeevich Roschakovsky, put to sea from Port Arthur as soon as darkness fell on 10 August [O.S.

[9][10][11] According to the Russian account of the ensuing incident, a Japanese boarding party went aboard Reshitel‘nyi at 03:00 on 12 August [O.S.

30 July] 1904, and the officer commanding the boarding party demanded that Reshitel‘nyi either surrender or put to sea within two hours and fight the Japanese destroyers in international waters.

[12] The men in the water eventually swam ashore,[12] and the Japanese, ignoring the protests of the senior Imperial Chinese Navy officer at Chefoo, towed Reshitel‘nyi to Dalniy as a prize.

[12] However, the local Chinese authorities backed the Russian version of events and the press in the United States criticized the Japanese action.

69, narrowly avoided colliding with Akatsuki but only by putting her helm so hard over that she overstressed and ruptured her hull, and she sank two hours later.

[16] The war ended in September 1905, and in its immediate aftermath the Japanese again renamed the former Russian destroyer, giving her the name Yamabiko, also transliterated as Yamahiko, on 19 October 1905.