CHINESE / PEOPLE`S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY (CHINA / PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)
Hu Peng 1908
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| 湖鹏 [No7 Hu Peng] | Kawasaki, Kobe, Japan | 2.1906 | 10.6.1906 | 1906 | sunk 1.10.1937 | ||
| 湖活 [No8 Hu Oah] | Kawasaki, Kobe, Japan | 2.1906 | 10.6.1906 | 1906 | sunk 8.10.1937 | ||
| 湖鹰 [No9 Hu Ying] | Kawasaki, Kobe, Japan | 5.1906 | 17.11.1906 | 1907 | sunk 9.8.1938 | ||
| 湖隼 [No10 Hu Chen] | Kawasaki, Kobe, Japan | 5.1906 | 17.11.1906 | 1907 | sunk 3.10.1937 |
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Displacement normal, t |
97 |
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Displacement full, t |
~120 |
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Length, m |
40.9 pp 41.1 oa |
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Breadth, m |
4.90 |
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Draught, m |
2.10 |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
1 VTE, 2 boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
1200 |
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Max speed, kts |
23 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 28 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
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Armament |
2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 2 x 1 - 450 TT |
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Complement |
34 |
Project history: "Kawasaki-Normand" type. Boats were built under Chinese order in Japan under drawings of Schichau, but with Normand boilers. To the beginning of 1930s they can make about 13kts.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Hu Peng 7 was sunk 1.10.1937 by Japanese aircraft on Yangtze at Jiangyin; she was salvaged by Japanese in the early 1938 and commissioned, but her further name and fate are unknown. Hu Oah 8 was sunk 8.10.1937 by Japanese aircraft on Yangtze at Zhenjiang; she was salvaged by Japanese in the early 1938 and commissioned by IJN as Kawasemi, in December, 1939 she was transferred to puppet Nanjing government as Hai Ching; exact data on further fate is absent (according to some information, she was lost in 1940 as result of navigating accident). Hu Ying 9 was sunk 9.8.1938 by Japanese aircraft on Yangtze between Matang and Hankow. Fate of Hu Chen 10 is unknown, there are 2 variants: 1) in 1942 she was still a part of residuals of Chinese Navy and 2) she was sunk 3.10.1937 by Japanese aircraft.
1929
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