home

fighting ships of the world

REPUBLIC OF CHINA NAVY (TAIWAN)

ESCORTS

I HSIEN corvette (1930/1949)

I Hsien 1955

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
逸仙 [I Hsien] (ex-阿多田 [Atada], ex-逸仙 [I Hsien]) FF78   Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai, China 1.1930 12.11.1930 12.1930 // 1949 stricken 6.1958

 

Displacement standard, t

1520

Displacement full, t

1650

Length, m

78.2 pp 83.8 oa

Breadth, m

10.5

Draught, m

3.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 3 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

4000

Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, t

coal 280

Endurance, nm(kts)

10000(10)

Armament

3 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76

Complement

173

Project history: Former Chinese gunboat I Hsien, sunk in 1937 by Japanese aircraft, later repaired and incorporated to IJN as Atada but returned to China after the war. In 1949 I Hsien escaped to Taiwan.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

© Ivan Gogin, 2016