PEOPLE`S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY (PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)
Ming Sen 1937
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| 明行 [Ming Sen] | Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai | 1.1931 | 5.5.1931 | 11.1931 | scuttled 12.11.1938 |
|
Displacement standard, t |
460 |
|
Displacement full, t |
600 |
|
Length, m |
64.0 |
|
Breadth, m |
8.20 |
|
Draught, m |
1.98 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
3600 |
|
Max speed, kts |
18 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
|
Armament |
1 x 1 - 120/45 Armstrong QF, 1 x 1 - 102/45 Armstrong QF, 2 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr Armstrong QF, 2 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss QF |
|
Complement |
115 |
Project history: Repeat of Ming Chuan with minor alterations in a hull structure and armament. She was laid down at Shanghai after launch of Yi Hsien, and after launch of Ming Sen on exempted slipway light cruiser Ping Hai was laid down.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: 27.10.1938 Ming Sen was hard damaged by Japanese aircraft on Yangtze at Hankow (Wuhan); 12.11.1938 she was scuttled at Hankow. She was salvaged by Japanese in 1939, renamed Hitonose and commissioned by IJN as repair ship; 21.12.1944 she was lost as result of collision with merchant vessel Kosho at Shanghai; she was salvaged again, but then was lost on a mine.
Ming Sen 1931
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