exploded. Torpedo Boat No. 45, which had fought in the Battle of Fuzhou, was lost at sea on 21 March 1885 while sailing to Ningbo to join the French vessels blockading the mouth of the Yangzi River. Torpedo Boat No. 46, which had attacked and sunk the Chinese corvette Yangwu during the Battle of Fuzhou, was lost at sea off Makung on 30 April 1885, shortly after the end of the Sino-French War. Both torpedo boats were lost while under tow (by Châteaurenault and d'Estaing respectively), and on both occasions foundered after the towing rope snapped. There were no casualties in either incident. The battle losses of the ships' crews and the squadron's landing companies were moderate. The squadron suffered minor losses in the Battle of Fuzhou and the subsequent descent of the Min River, and rather heavier casualties on 8 October 1884 in the failed landing at Tamsui during the Keelung Campaign. French casualties in the Battle of Shipu were minimal. Several sailors died of cholera during the four-month occupation of the Pescadores Islands following the Pescadores Campaign. Ships of the Far East squadron Naval uniforms of the Far East squadron Notes References Destelan, P., Annam et Tonkin: Notes de voyage d'un marin (Paris, 1892) Duboc, Émile, Trente cinq mois de campagne en Chine, au Tonkin (Paris, 1899) Ferrero, Stéphane, Formose, vue par un marin français du XIXe siècle (Paris, 2005) Garnot, L'expédition française de Formose, 1884–1885 (Paris, 1894) Loir, Maurice, L'escadre de l'amiral Courbet (Paris, 1886) Lung Chang [龍章], Yueh-nan yu Chung-fa chan-cheng [越南與中法戰爭, Vietnam and the Sino-French War] (Taipei, 1993) Bernard, Hervé, L'Amiral Adrien, Barthélemy, Louis, Henri Rieunier (1833–1918) Ministre de la Marine – La Vie Extraordinaire d'un Grand Marin (Biarritz, 2005) Rawlinson, John, China's Struggle for Naval Development, 1839–1895 (Harvard, 1967) Rollet de l'Isle, Maurice, Au Tonkin et dans les mers de Chine (Paris, 1886) Wright, Richard, The Chinese Steam Navy, 1862–1945 (London, 2001) French naval components Sino-French War