Hei Yen 1903
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| 平遠 [Hei Yen] (ex-平遠 [Ping Yuan], ex-Lung Wei) | Foochow Arsenal, China | 7.12.1886 | 29.1.1888 | 28.9.1889 // 16.3.1895 | sunk 18.9.1904 |
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Displacement normal, t |
2150 |
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Displacement full, t |
2640 |
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Length, m |
60.0 pp 70.2 wl |
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Breadth, m |
12.2 |
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Draught, m |
4.21 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 VTE, 4 cylindrical boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
2400 |
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Max speed, kts |
10.2 |
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Fuel, t |
coal 350 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 3000(8) |
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Armour, mm |
belt: 203 - 125, deck: 50, barbette: 125, cupola and shields: 25, CT: 125 |
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Armament |
1 x 1 - 263/32 RKL/35 C/84, 2 x 1 - 149/32 RKL/35 C/80, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 10 - 11.4/94, 2 - 350 TT (1 bow, 1 stern) |
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Complement |
204 |
Project history: The Hei Yen (ex-Chinese Ping Yuen) was captured at Wei-Hai-Wei on 12 February 1895. She was refitted and commissioned 16.3.1895 into the Imperial Navy as a gunnery training ship.
Ship protection: Main belt was 2.1m-high and 203mm-thick abreast machinery and magazines, 2.1m-high and 125mm-thick at fore and 1.22m-high and 150mm-thick at aft parts. Protected deck was 50mm at full length. Main gun was protected by 125mm barbette and 25mm cupola.
Modernizations:
None.Naval service: During the Russo-Japanese war she served as a coastal bombardment ship and was stricken by Russian mine and sunk off Pigeon Bay, Port Arthur 18.9.1904.
Ping Yuan 1895
© Ivan Gogin, 2014