 On 22 March , Peresvet joined several other battleships firing indirectly at Japanese ships bombarding Port Arthur 's harbor . While training outside Port Arthur on 26 March , she accidentally collided with the battleship Sevastopol and sustained minor damage . Peresvet participated in the action of 13 April , when Tōgō successfully lured out a portion of the Pacific Squadron , including Vice Admiral Stepan Makarov 's flagship , the battleship Petropavlovsk . When Makarov spotted the five Japanese battleships , he turned back for Port Arthur and Petropavlovsk struck a minefield laid by the Japanese the previous night . The ship sank in less than two minutes following the explosion of one of her magazines , and Makarov was one of the 677 killed . Emboldened by his success , Tōgō resumed long @-@ range bombardment missions . Two days later , Peresvet hit the armored cruiser Nisshin once as the latter ship was bombarding Port Arthur . 
