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PEOPLE`S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY (PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)

ESCORTS

HSIN YANG escort destroyers (1945/1947)

Hsin Yang 1947

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
華陽 [Hua Yang] (ex- [Tsuta])     Yokosuka K K, Japan 7/1944 2.11.1944 2/1945 // 3.7.1947 to Taiwan 2.1949 (華陽 [Hua Yang]), stricken 1950
信陽 [Hsin Yang] (ex-初梅 [Hatsuyume])     Maizuru K K, Japan 12.1944 25.5.1945 6.1945 // 3.7.1947 to Taiwan 2.1949 (信陽 [Hsin Yang]), stricken 12.1961

  

Displacement standard, t

1289

Displacement full, t

1640

Length, m

92.2 pp 98.0 wl 100.0 oa

Breadth, m

9.35

Draught, m

3.37

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Kampon geared steam turbines, 2 Kampon boilers

Power, h. p.

19000

Max speed, kts

27.8

Fuel, t

oil 370

Endurance, nm(kts) 4680(16)

Armament

1 x 2 - 127/40 89-shiki, 1 x 1 - 127/40 89-shiki, 4 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 17 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 1 x 4 - 610 TT, 7 DCT, 2 DCR (60)

Electronic equipment 2-shiki 2-go, 3-shiki 1-go radars, 93-shiki sonar

Complement

211

Project history: Former Japanese Tachibana class escort destroyers, transferred by reparations.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

© Ivan Gogin, 2015