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PAO MIN steel cruiser (1885)


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Pao Min 1885

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
保民 [Pao Min]     Kiangnan DYd late 1883 1885 10/1885 hulk 1903


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1480

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

64.9 pp 69.4 oa

Breadth, m

11.0

Draught, m

4.27

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 HC, 6 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

1900

Max speed, kts

9

Fuel, t

coal 360

Endurance, nm(kts)

3360(10)

Armament

2 x 1 - 149/32 RK L/35 C/80, 6 x 1 - 120/32 RK L/35 C/80, 2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss

Complement

200



Standard scale images


<i>Pao Min </i>1890s
Pao Min 1890s


Graphics


<i>Pao Min </i>1885
Pao Min 1885


Project history

Schooner-rigged, steel-hulled cruiser built for the Nanyang fleet. She had a ram bow, two masts and one funnel. One 15cm gun was mounted in the bow and the other on the quarterdeck. The 12cm were mounted on the broadside.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.

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