Li Sui 1932
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
李璲 [Li Sui] (ex-Vaterland) | Schichau, Elbing, Germany | 1902 | 26.8.1903 | 5.1904 // 1933 | TS 1941, captured by USSR 22.8.1945 (Пекин [Pekin]) |
Displacement normal, t |
223 |
Displacement full, t |
280 |
Length, m |
48.0 wl 50.1 oa |
Breadth, m |
8.00 |
Draught, m |
0.94 |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 VTE, 2 Schultz-Thornycroft boilers |
Power, h. p. |
1300 |
Max speed, kts |
13 |
Fuel, t |
coal 85 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | 1630(9) |
Armament |
2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.7/80 |
Complement |
50 |
Project history: Former German river gunboat Vaterland, requisitioned by China at Nanking 20.3.1917, when China declared war to Germany, and renamed Li Sui. Subsequently she was translated to Sungari. In 1932 she was in failure condition captured by Japanese troops and enlisted by Sungari flotilla of Manchukuo. In 1933 she was repaired by Kawasaki in Harbin and commissioned. Japanese name was Risui. In 1937 gunboat can make only 7kts.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: In 1941 Li Sui was converted to TS, 22.8.1945 captured by Soviet troops in Harbin and commissioned by Soviet Navy as TS Pekin.
Li Sui 1937
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