The French gunboat Doudard de Lagrée arrived at Shanghai via the Jangtze river and was there unrigged with the purpose to stay there until the European crisis was ended.(1)
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1. Named after Ernest Doudart de :Lagrée (31 March 1823 Saint Vincent de Mercuze near Grenoble-12 March 1868 Dongchuan, Yunnan, China), French naval officer in command of the Mekong Expedition of 1866-1868, but also an entomologist. The very interesting website http://www.hmsfalcon.com/foreign/foreign.htm said that she was part of the Doudart de Lagree-class with a dispalcement of 240 tons and a length f 53 metres, Disarmed in 1939, stricken on 27 June 1949 and transferred to China. Her final fate remains unknown until now. Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships 1906-1921 claims that she was sold in 1906.
