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PING CHING customs cruiser (1880)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
[Ping Ching] (ex-Amitista, ex-Jorge Juan)     Dumbarton, UK   1880 1880 discarded after 1921

 

Displacement normal, t

1000

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

64.7

Breadth, m

9.15

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

1

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 160/? MLR, 4 x 1 - 109/? MLR, 1 x 1 - 88/? BL

Complement

 

Project history: Customs cruiser, iron-hulled. Purchased incomplete.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Fate of the ship is unknown.

 

I thank Paul Money, editor of http://naval-history.net/,  for the correction of information on this page

 

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