2nd Fleet (Imperial Japanese Navy)

The IJN 2nd Fleet (第二艦隊 (日本海軍)) was a fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

History
First established on 28 December 1903, the IJN 2nd Fleet was created by the Imperial General Headquarters as a mobile strike force of cruisers and destroyers to pursue the Imperial Russian Navy's Vladivostok-based cruiser squadron while the remaining bulk of the Japanese fleet (the IJN 1st Fleet) continued to blockade Port Arthur in hopes of luring the battleships of the Russian Pacific Fleet out into a classic line-of-battle confrontation. As the main mobile force in the Imperial Japanese Navy, the IJN 2nd Fleet saw the bulk of all future combat operations from the time of its inception until this dissolution at the end of World War II.

Commanders of the IJN 2nd Fleet
Commander in chief

Chief of Staff