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

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SUNG HWEI patrol trawlers (1941-1943/1949)

Killegray 1952

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
(ex-Ching Hai, ex-Balta)     Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull, UK 8.1940 2.12.1940 5.1941 // 1949 deleted 1967
(ex-Sung Hwei, ex-Hoxa)     Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull, UK 9.1940 15.1.1941 6.1941 // 1949 deleted 1967

Displacement standard, t

545

Displacement full, t

770

Length, m

50.0

Breadth, m

8.43

Draught, m

3.38 deep load

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

850

Max speed, kts

12.25

Fuel, t

coal 183

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 HA/LA IX, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (30), mechanical minesweeping gear

Electronic equipment type 271 or type 290 radar, type 122 sonar

Complement

35 - 40

 

Project history: Former British Isles class trawlers, disarmed and sold to Chinese merchant owners. In 1949 they were taken by Communist forces and recommissioned by PLAN.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

© Ivan Gogin, 2015