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1929

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
湖鹏 [No7 Hu Peng]			Kawasaki, Kobe, Japan	2.1906	10.6.1906	1906	sunk 1.10.1937
湖活 [No8 Hu Oah]			Kawasaki, Kobe, Japan	2.1906	10.6.1906	1906	sunk 8.10.1937
湖鹰 [No9 Hu Ying]			Kawasaki, Kobe, Japan	5.1906	17.11.1906	1907	sunk 9.8.1938
湖隼 [No10 Hu Chen]			Kawasaki, Kobe, Japan	5.1906	17.11.1906	1907	sunk 3.10.1937

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	97
Displacement full, t	~120
Length, m	40.9 pp 41.1 oa
Breadth, m	4.90
Draught, m	2.10
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	1200
Max speed, kts	23
Fuel, t	coal 28
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	34

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Project history

"Kawasaki-Normand" type. Boats were built under Chinese order in Japan under drawings of Schichau, but with Normand boilers. To the beginning of 1930s they can make about 13kts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Hu Peng 7 was sunk 1.10.1937 by Japanese aircraft on Yangtze at Jiangyin; she was salvaged by Japanese in the early 1938 and commissioned, but her further name and fate are unknown. Hu Oah 8 was sunk 8.10.1937 by Japanese aircraft on Yangtze at Zhenjiang; she was salvaged by Japanese in the early 1938 and commissioned by IJN as Kawasemi, in December, 1939 she was transferred to puppet Nanjing government as Hai Ching; exact data on further fate is absent (according to some information, she was lost in 1940 as result of navigating accident). Hu Ying 9 was sunk 9.8.1938 by Japanese aircraft on Yangtze between Matang and Hankow. Fate of Hu Chen 10 is unknown, there are 2 variants: 1) in 1942 she was still a part of residuals of Chinese Navy and 2) she was sunk 3.10.1937 by Japanese aircraft.

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