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LI SUI river gunboat (1903/1917)

Li Sui 1917

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
李璲 [Li Sui] (ex-Vaterland)     Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1902 26.8.1903 5.1904 // 3.1917 captured by Japan 1932, to Manchukuo (李璲 [Li Sui])

 

Displacement normal, t

223

Displacement full, t

280

Length, m

48.0 wl 50.1 oa

Breadth, m

8.00

Draught, m

0.94

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Schultz-Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

1300

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

coal 85
Endurance, nm(kts) 1630(9)

Armament

1 x 1 - 88/27 SK L/30 C/89, 1 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92, 2 x 1 - 7.9/79

Complement

58

Project history: Former German Vaterland, requisitioned by Chinese authorities 20.3.1917 at Nanking.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: In 1932 Li Sui was captured by Japanese troops on Sungari and transferred by them to Manchukuo river flotilla. Since 1941 she served as TS, 22.8.1945 she was captured by Soviet troops and commissioned by Soviet Amur flotilla as TS Pekin.

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