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Fu An 1930s

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
福安 [Fu An]			Foochow DYd	1896	1897	1897	completed as transport, TS 1928, stricken 1932

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1700
Displacement full, t
Length, m	76.8 pp
Breadth, m	11.6
Draught, m	5.49
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VC, 4 boilers
Power, h. p.	1600
Max speed, kts	10
Fuel, t	coal 170
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss
Military load
Complement	105

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Project history

Unprotected cruiser (in a number of sources wrongly called Foo Sing), built after defeat in Japanese-Chinese war for Shanghai flotilla. Originally she carried three masts and sailing rig. She was laid down as cruiser but just before completion was converted to military transport

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

In the late 1928 Fu An was repaired and converted for usage as training ship of 4th (Canton) squadron. Information of armaments structure in 1930s is not present. In the early October, 1937 Fu An was scuttled as a hulk for fairway barrage in 6 miles off Wampoa at Canton (Guangzhou).

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