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Tung Chi 1933
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| 同濟 [Tung Chi] | Foochow DYd | 1893 | 1894 | 8/1896 | TS 1909, scuttled 11.8.1937 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1900 |
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Displacement full, t |
|
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Length, m |
77.0 pp |
|
Breadth, m |
10.4 |
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Draught, m |
4.88 |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
1 VC, 4 boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
1600 |
|
Max speed, kts |
11.6 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal 200 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
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Armament |
2 x 1 - 152/40 Armstrong U, 5 x 1 - 120/45 Armstrong Y, 3 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 8 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss |
|
Complement |
335 |
Project history: Laid down at Fuzhou as transport Chien Chung; in 1896 it has been decided to complete ship as unprotected training cruiser for Shanghai flotilla, in the end of the same year, soon after commission, ship was renamed Tung Chi. The first steel-hulled ship completely built in China.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: 11.8.1937 Tung Chi was scuttled on Yangtze at Jiangyin for fairway barrage.
Tung Chi 1929
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