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WEI YUEN composite sloops (1877-1885)


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Wei Yuen 1877 Many thanks to Mr. Wu for many additions and corrections of information on this page.

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
威遠 [Wei Yuen]     Foochow Arsenal 2.9.1876 15.5.1877 14.9.1877 TS 7.1885, sunk 5.2.1895, repaired, discarded 1906
超武 [Chao Wu]     Foochow Arsenal 1877 19.6.1878 1879 discarded 1909
康濟 [Kang Chi]     Foochow Arsenal 12.7.1878 21.7.1879 9.1.1880 captured by Japan 17.2.1895, returned 1895, TS, discarded 1907
澄慶 [Teng Ch'ing]     Foochow Arsenal 1879 10/1880 1881 sunk 15.2.1885
横海 [Heng Hai]     Foochow Arsenal 1883 1884 7/1885 sunk 17.3.1886
广甲 [Kuang Chia]     Foochow Arsenal 1884 1885 7/1885 sunk 17.9.1884


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1258

Ching Ch'ing, Heng Hai: 1477

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

64.0 pp 66.2 oa

Ching Ch'ing, Heng Hai: 66.1 pp 68.3 oa

Breadth, m

8.99

Draught, m

3.81

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HC, 4 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

750

Ching Ch'ing, Heng Hai: 1200

Max speed, kts

11

Ching Ch'ing, Heng Hai: 15

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armour, mm

iron: shield: 32 - 13

Armament

1 x 1 - 160/14 Armstrong MLR, 6 x 1 - 121/22 Armstrong 40pdr 1.32-ton BLR

Heng Hai: 1 x 1 - 178/16 Armstrong MLR, 6 x 1 - 121/22 Armstrong 40pdr 1.32-ton BLR

Kuang Chia: 1 x 1 - 149/32 RK L/35 C/80, 4 x 1 - 120/32 RK L/35 C/80, 6 x 1 - 37/40 Hotchkiss

Complement

180



Standard scale images


<i>Chao Wu </i>1877
Chao Wu 1877
<i>Heng Hai </i>1890
Heng Hai 1890


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<i>Wei Yuen </i>1877 <i>Many thanks to Mr. Wu for many additions and corrections of information on this page.</i>
Wei Yuen 1877 Many thanks to Mr. Wu for many additions and corrections of information on this page.


Project history

Composite-hulled, fully-rigged sloops, Wei Yuen and Kang Chi being built for the Peiyang fleet and others for the Nanyang fleet.

Ship protection

Main gun had a shield.

Modernizations

1880s, Chao Wu: - 1 x 1 - 160/14; + 2 x 1 - 152/26 Armstrong BLR, 1 x 1 - 121/22 Armstrong 40pdr 1.32-ton BLR

1890s, Heng Hai: - 1 x 1 - 178/16; + 2 x 1 - 149/32 RK L/35 C/80, 1 x 1 - 120/32 RK L/35 C/80

1890s, Kuang Chia: - 4 x 1 - 120/32 RK L/35 C/80; + 2 x 1 - 149/32 RK L/35 C/80, 4 x 1 - 105/37 SK L/40 C/97

1894, Wei Yuan: - 1 x 1 - 160/14; + 3 x 1 - 105/37 SK L/40 C/97

Naval service

Wei Yuen was disarmed in July 1885 and became TS for midshipmen; she was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese TB23 at Wei-Hai-Wei 5.2.1895. Later she was salvaged, repaired and served till 1906. Kang Chi was captured by Japanese at Wei-Hai-Wei 17.2.1895 but she was disarmed by them and returned to Chinese for repatriation service. Later she was disarmed and fitted with two TT for her new role as a torpedo TS. Teng Ch'ing was sunk by spar TBs from the French cruiser Bayard off Shei-Poo on the night of 14-15.2.1885.

Many thanks to Mr. Wu for many additions and corrections of information on this page.

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