Japanese warship Mikaho
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Enomoto Takeaki
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, vice-commander of the Navy, refusing to remit his fleet to the new government and left Shinagawa on August 20, 1868, with four steam warships (Kaiyō
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, Kaiten
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, Banryū
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, Chiyodagata
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) and four steam transports (Kanrin
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, Mikaho, Shinsoku
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, Chōgei
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) as well as 2,000 members of the Navy, 36 members of the "Yugekitai" (Guerilla corps) headed by Iba Hachiro, several officials of the former Bakufu government such as the vice-commander in chief of the Army Matsudaira Taro
Matsudaira Taro
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, Nakajima Saburozuke, and members of the French Military Mission to Japan, headed by Jules Brunet
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On August 21, the fleet encountered a typhoon off Choshi, in which the Mikaho was lost and the Kanrin, heavily damaged, forced to rally the coast, where she was captured in Shimizu.