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Fs Dupleix (1861) | align="center" colspan="2"| | | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| Career | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| | | aid down: | 9 Octobre 1856 | | aunched: | 28 March 1861 | | ommissioned: | 26 February 1862 | | ecommissioned: | 1887 | | olspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 1773 freight tons | | ength: | 61 m | | idth: | 11.40 m | | raught: | 5.10 m | | ropulsion: | 340 HP steam engine | | peed: | 13.5 knots | | omplement: | 190 men | | rmament: | 10 x 160 mm guns | The Dupleix was a steam and sail corvette of the French Marine Nationale. She was the first French vessel named after the XVIIIth Century Gouvernor of Pondichry and Gouverneur Gnral of the French possessions in India marquess Joseph Dupleix. After her commissioning, the Dupleix was sent to the Chinese Sea under vice-admiral Jaures. She arrived in Saigon on the 25th of August 1862, and made short stops in Lieou-Kieou Island and Hakodate Island, before arriving in Yokohama. During the bombardment of Shimonoseki (5 Septembre 1864), the Dupleix was second in the line of corvettes, between the British Tartar and the Dutch Metallkruz. She fired 411 shots and recieved 22 cannonballs (7 in the hull, 4 under the floating line, and 11 in the sails). She had two killed and 8 wounded. On the 28 Decembre 1864, the Dupleix sailed back to France, where she was decommissioned on the 25 June 1865. She was re-commissioned in Cherbourg in 1867, and sent back to serve in the "Far-East Naval Division", unsed counter-admiral Ohier. She arrived in Yokohama in February 1868, and was immediately involved in the events of the Japanese Revolution. On the 8 March 1868, a canot was send to Sakai and was attacked by samurais of the prince of Tosa; 11 sailors and Midshipman Guillou were killed (a monument in Kobe is now erected to their memory). The captain protested so strongly that the cuplrit were arrested, and 20 of them were sentenced to death by seppuku. However, the execution style was so shoking for the French that after 11 were carried out, the French captain requested grace for the survivors. This allowed the French and Japanese parties to reconciliate, and is now known as Sakai-jiken. On the 16 April 1868, the Dupleix was the first Western ship saluting the Emperor in fort Temposan. In Octobre of the same year, the Dupleix was sent to Edo. She rescued the British corvette Rattler, which was shipwrecked at Romanzoff Bay, in La Perouse Strait. Replaced in Edo by the cruiser Coetlogon, the Dupleix brough back captain Jules Brunet and his companions from Hakodate to Yokohama and Saigon after the fall of the Republic of Ezo. From July 1870 to February 1871, the Dupleix blockaded the German corvette Hertha in Nagasaki. In March, the Dupleix sailed back to Cherbourg to be de-commissioned. From 1876 to 1886, the Dupleix was re-armed every year from March to Octobre to monitor fishery operations in Island. She was struck in 1887. Dupleix
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