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Kuang Yi 1894

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
廣乙 [Kuang Yi]			Foochow Arsenal	28.7.1887	28.8.1889	30.11.1890	sunk 25.7.1894
廣丙 [Kuang Ping]			Foochow Arsenal	2.1.1888	11.4.1891	18.12.1891	captured by Japan 17.2.1895 (小平号 [Kohei Go])
福靖 [Fu Ch'ing] (ex-廣丁 [Kuang Ting])			Foochow Arsenal	1888	1893	1894	stricken 1914

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1000
Displacement full, t
Length, m	71.6
Breadth, m	8.23
Draught, m	3.96
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 HTE, 3 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	2400
Max speed, kts	16
Fuel, t	coal 140
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	steel; deck: 25, CT: 51
Armament	3 x 1 - 120/32 SK L/35 C/87, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 - 356 TT (2 bow), 2 x 1 - 356 TT
Complement	120

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Project history

Steel-hulled vessels, built at Foochow for the Kwangtung fleet. They had a ram bow, a raised turtleback forecastle, three masts and one funnel. The three 12cm/40 Krupp QFs were mounted one each side of the funnel and one aft. Two 356mm TT were mounted beneath the turtleback forecastle and the other two were on the main deck broadside aft.

Ship protection

Machinery was protected by 25mm deck, CT had 51mm sides.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Kuang Yi was sunk by the Japanese at the Battle of Asan on 25.7.94 and Kuang Ping was captured by them at Wei-Hai-Wei and renamed Kohei Go.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014