PEOPLE`S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY (PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)
Yung Chien 1937
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| 永谦 [Yung Chien], 1951- 延安 [Yen An] | Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai | 1914 | 1914 | 1915 | scuttled 25.8.1937, re-commissioned 1946, stricken 1964 | ||
| 永解 [Yung Chi] | Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | sunk 21.10.1938, to Nanking 5.1940 (海兴 [Hai Hsing]), re-captured 9.1945, stricken 1964 |
|
Displacement normal, t |
860 |
|
Displacement full, t |
1039 |
|
Length, m |
62.5 pp 65.7 oa |
|
Breadth, m |
9.00 |
|
Draught, m |
3.50 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
2 VTE, 2 watertube boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
1350 |
|
Max speed, kts |
13 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal 150 |
|
Endurance, nm(kts) |
|
| Armour, mm | deck: 25 |
|
Armament |
1 x 1 - 102/50 Armstrong P, 1 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim |
|
Complement |
105 |
Project history: Built under the 1910 Programme in Shanghai as third and fourth ships of Yung Feng class, but under slightly changed design, with poop.
Modernizations: 1946, Yung Chien: was armed by 2 x 1 - 76/40 3-shiki
Naval service:
Yung Chien was sunk 25.8.1937 by Japanese ships (on other data by aircrafts
from carrier Kaga) at Kiangnan shipyard in Shanghai where she was under repair; 18.12.1937
she was salvaged by Japanese, repaired and 25.10.1938 commissioned by IJN as
depot ship Asuka; in 1945 she was converted to AA ship and rearmed; 7.5.1945
she was sunk by American aircraft in a mouth of Yellow River. After war she was
salvaged and commissioned again under former name as gunboat; since 1949 she
served under PRC flag, in 1951 renamed Yen An and stricken in 1964.
Yung Chi 21.10.1938 was hard damaged by Japanese aircraft on
Yangtze off in r-not
Jinshi and ran aground; 8.11.1938 she was captured by Japanese,
salvaged, repaired later and 22.5.1940 transferred to puppet Nanjing Government as Hai Hsing. In September, 1945
she was captured by Kuomintang army and
commissioned under former name. 25.4.1949 she was sunk by communists forces on
Yangtze, subsequently salvaged and
commissioned by PRC Navy under former name, stricken in 1964.
Yung Chien 1929
Yeng An 1947
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