Ship Model:La Fronde

In the infamous Bingwu Typhoon of 1906 the French torpedo boat destroyer La Fronde, attempting to go to the assistance of Chinese sailors in trouble, was run down and cut in two by a steamer out of control. Five crewmen were drowned whose memorial, once in Kowloon, now stands in the Hong Kong Cemetery in Happy Valley. The wreck was repaired in the Hongkong and Whampoa Dockyard and later served in one of the earliest naval engagements of the First World War.