CHINESE / PEOPLE`S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY (CHINA / PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)
Chien Wei 1903
Ta Tung 1933
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| 錢偉 [Chien Wei], 1931- 斯江 [Tze Kiang] | Foochow DYd | 1898 | 29.1.1899 | 1903 | scuttled 11.8.1937 | ||
| 錢安 [Chien An], 1931- 大同 [Ta Tung] | Foochow DYd | 1898 | 3.3.1900 | 1903 | scuttled 11.8.1937 |
|
Displacement normal, t |
871 |
|
Displacement full, t |
900 |
|
Length, m |
78.0 pp 79.2 oa |
|
Breadth, m |
8.13 |
|
Draught, m |
3.48 max |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
2 VTE, 4 Normand boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
6500 |
|
Max speed, kts |
20.5 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal 360 |
|
Endurance, nm(kts) |
|
|
Armour, mm |
steel; belt: 25, deck: 25 |
|
Armament |
1 x 1 - 100/44 Schneider-Canet M1898, 3 x 1 - 65/50 Schneider-Canet M18921, 6 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim, 2 x 1 - 356 TT |
|
Complement |
140 |
Project history: Torpedo gunboats, officially rated as cruisers. Built in Fuzhou under
design of French engineer M. Doyère developed on the basis of
built by Vulkan torpedo gunboat Fei Ying.
They were laid down in the mid-1898 as Chien An and Chien Wei.
Ships were launched in 1899-1900, but further works were suspended because of Boxer
Rebellion. As a result both ships were transferred to trials only in the end of 1902 and
commissioned in 1903.
Machinery was made
by F C de la Mediterranée (Le Havre). Side abreast machinery was
protected by 25mm armour. Designed speed was 23kts, on trials Chien Wei shown 20.3kts, Chien An 19.8kts, in
service conditions they made no more than 18kts.
In 1930-1931 both were rebuilt by Kiangnan in Shanghai to "fast gunboats"
and renamed Ta Tung and Tze Kiang respectively. During
modernization the architecture and armaments were completely changed, TTs were
removed; maximal speed was about 12kts.
Ship protection: 25mm belt and deck protected machinery.
Modernizations: (1930-1931, Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai), both: superstructures were rebuilt; armament consisted of 2 x 1 - 120/45 Armstrong Y, 1 x 1 - 76/50 Armstrong 14pdr QF, 2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 1 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim, 6 x 1 - 7.7/87; without torpedoes, maximal speed was 12kts.
Naval service: In 1937 both ships were actually in disabled condition and 11.08/1937 were scuttled together with old cruisers on Yangtze at Jiangyin for barrage of fairways.
Ta Tung 1931
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