Hai Ning patrol crafts (1932-1934)

Hai Ning 1933

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
海寧 [Hai Ning]			Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai	1.1932	10.10.1932	1932	sunk 14.7.1938
南寧 [Kiang Ning]			Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai	1.1932	10.10.1932	1932	captured by Japan 11.11.1937
武寧 [Wu Ning]			Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai		23.2.1933	1933	sunk 1938
遂寧 [Sui Ning]			Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai		23.2.1933	1933	sunk 13.7.1938
威寧 [Wei Ning]			Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai		10.10.1933	1933	stricken 1949
肅寧 [Su Ning]			Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai		10.10.1933	1933	sunk 1938
重寧 [Chung Ning]			Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai		17.2.1934	1934	sunk 3.7.1938
伊寧 [Yi Ning]			Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai		17.2.1934	1934	stricken 1949
常寧 [Chang Ning]			Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai		14.6.1934	1934	sunk 3.7.1938
成寧 [Cheng Ning]			Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai		14.6.1934	1934	sunk 1938

Displacement standard, t	300
Displacement full, t
Length, m	42.7 pp 43.5 oa
Breadth, m	6.10
Draught, m	2.38
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 1 boiler
Power, h. p.	600
Max speed, kts	10
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss or 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II, 3 x 1 - 7.7/87
Complement	44

Project history: Built in Shanghai in 1931-1934 with technical assistance of German consortium HAPRO. Steel hull with a forecastle. Some had two 40mm pompoms. Since a beginning of war in 1937 they were used also as minelayers. Under some data, the eleventh ship of a class, Tai Ning (first Chinese ship with an all-welded hull) was laid down; Japanese captured her in Shanghai at slipway and broken up.

Modernizations: 1937, all: + mines

Naval service: Kiang Ning 11.11.1937 was captured by Japanese at Shanghai. Chung Ning and Chang Ning were sunk by Japanese aircraft on Yangtze between Matang and Hankow (Wuhan) 3.7.1938; Sui Ning was sunk in the same place 13.7.1938. Hai Ning 14.7.1938 was sunk by Japanese aircraft on the lake Poyang Hu. Wu Ning, Suh Ning and Cheng Ning in 1938 were sunk by Japanese aircraft on river Ming in province Fujian.

Hai Ning 1933

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HAI NING patrol crafts (1932-1934)