Yung Feng gunboats (1913)

Yung Hsiang 1933

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
永丰 [Yung Feng], 3.1925- 中山 [Chung Shan]			Kawasaki, Kobe, Japan		1912	1913	sunk 24.10.1938
永翔 [Yung Hsiang]			Kawasaki, Kobe, Japan		30.3.1912	1913	scuttled 26.9.1937

Displacement normal, t	830
Displacement full, t	1020
Length, m	62.5 pp 65.8 oa
Breadth, m	9.00
Draught, m	2.40
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 watertube boilers
Power, h. p.	1350
Max speed, kts	13
Fuel, t	coal 190
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	deck: 25
Armament	1 x 1 - 105/37 SK L/40 C/91, 1 x 1 - 76/50 Armstrong 14pdr QF, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim
Complement	108

Project history: Ordered under the 1910 program. Design was developed on basis of Japanese gunboat Saga. Seaworthy gunboats with armoured deck and high forecastle.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: In 1922 Sun Yatsen onboard Yung Feng escaped from Canton. After his death in March, 1925, Yung Feng was renamed into his honour Chung Shan ("Median Mountain", poetic pseudonym, accepted by Yatsen during his emigration in Japan). In October, 1929 this gunboat was sunk at Canton as result of ammunition explosion, but was raised and repaired by Kiangnan in Shanghai.
Yung Hsiang 26.9.1937 was scuttled at Tsingtao. Subsequently she was salvaged and towed off to Japan, in 1946 she was returned to China; in 1949 she escaped to Taiwan where served up to late 1950s. Chung Shan was sunk 24.10.1938 by Japanese aircraft on Yangtze between Hankow (Wuhan) and Yueyang.

Yung Hsiang 1928

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YUNG FENG gunboats (1913)