An item dated Paris 17 May reported that a day earlier at Rochefort a French gunboat was capsized causing the life of four men. The French armoured ship Amiral Duperré struck a rock in the bay of St. Juan.(1) After stopping her leaking was she salvaged and in the meantime brought back to Toulon.
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1. Laid down at the shipyard of La Seyne in January 1877, launched in September two years later, completed in 1883 and finally stricken in 1909. With a displacement of 11.030 tons and as dimensions 97,48 (waterline) x 20,40 x 9,43 (maximum) metres. Her armament consisted of 4x1-13.4” guns, 1-6” gun, 14-5.5” guns, 18-1pd revolvers and 4-14” surfaced torpedo tubes.
