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TORPEDO SHIPS

TAKOU sea-going torpedo boat (1898 / 1900)

Takou 1900

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Takou (ex-Hai Ching)   610 Schichau, Elbing, Germany 1897 3.1898 7.1898 // 6.1900 wrecked 22.2.1911

  

Displacement normal, t

243

Displacement full, t

284

Length, m

59.0

Breadth, m

6.40

Draught, m

2.55

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 4 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

5000

Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

coal 67

Endurance, nm(kts)

3000(12)

Armament

4 x 1 - 47/40 M1885, 2 x 1 - 37/20 M1885, 2 x 1 - 380 TT

Complement

57

Project history: Captured Chinese destroyer Takou (ex-Hai Ching). She was rearmed before commission.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: She spent her French service on the Saigon station and was wrecked on 11.2.1911.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014