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PEOPLE`S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY (PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

auxiliary gunboats of interwar period

more than 1000 t:

Name No Launched // Comm. Builder Displacement, t Dimensions, m Speed, kts Machinery, power, hp Armament Fate
聼牌 [Ting Hai] (ex-Hwei An, ex-Oleg, ex-Pronto)   1896 // 1926 Helsigfors, Denmark 2500 73.0x10.5x 13 1VTE, 127 2x1-120/45, 2x1-76/50, mines discarded early 1930s

less than 1000 t:

Hoi Fu (1904, 680, 1-76/50, 1932 - 26.9.1937); Kiang Ping (1897, 250, 1-76/50, 1926 - ?.10.1929); Kiang Chin (1903, 250, 1-76/50, 1926 - ?.10.1929); Kiang An (1897, 250, 1-76/50, 1926 - ?.10.1929); Li Chuan (1897, 250, 1-76/50, 1926 - ?.10.1929)

Project history: Merchant cargo vessel, trawler and Russian river tugs.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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