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The ''Samarang'' was an English vessel which visited the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] several times in [[1843]] to [[1845]]. Captained by Edward Belcher, it surveyed and mapped sections of the [[Ryukyu Islands]], and repeatedly made port to ask for supplies, causing difficulties for the Ryukyuan royal government.

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==References==
*Marco Tinello, "The termination of the Ryukyuan embassies to Edo : an investigation of the bakumatsu period through the lens of a tripartite power relationship and its world," PhD thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (2014), 129.

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