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Sailors from the ''Diana'' were later granted passage on the German merchant ship ''[[Greta]]'', but the ''Greta'' was then captured near the mouth of the [[Amur River]] by the [[HMS Barracouta|HMS ''Barracouta'']] sometime in early to mid-[[1855]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 88.</ref>
Sailors from the ''Diana'' were later granted passage on the German merchant ship ''[[Greta]]'', but the ''Greta'' was then captured near the mouth of the [[Amur River]] by the [[HMS Barracouta|HMS ''Barracouta'']] sometime in early to mid-[[1855]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 88.</ref>
Russian envoy [[Konstantin Possiet]] later gifted 52 cannon from the wreck of the ''Diana'' to the shogunate in [[1856]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 265.</ref>
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