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CHINESE CUSTOMS SERVICE (CHINA)

CUSTOMS SHIPS

FEE CHEU customs cruiser (1887)

Fee Cheu 1887

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
[Fee Cheu]     Doxford, Sunderland, UK   1887 mid-1887 lost 1937

 

Displacement normal, t

1300

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

67.1

Breadth, m

9.76

Draught, m

4.04

No of shafts

2

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 152/26 Armstrong BLR

Complement

 

Project history: Customs cruiser. Steel-hulled ship intended for use as an armed transport, dispatch vessel and cable layer.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: After the beginning of Japanese-Chinese war in 1937 all Chinese customs fleet was destroyed by Japanese.

 

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