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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
伏波 [Fu Po] (ex-Petunia)			Robb, Leith, UK	12.1939	19.9.1940	1.1941 // 1.1946	collision 19.3.1947
開封 [Kaifeng] (ex-Cloverlock, ex-Clover)			Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley, UK	7.1940	30.1.1941	5/1941 // 1949	survey vessel 1975
[?] (ex-Maw Hwa, ex-Tenacity, ex-Candytuft)			Grangemouth, UK	10/1939	8.7.1940	10/1940 // 1949?	stricken early 1950s?
臨沂 [Linyi] (ex-Ziang Teh, ex-Heliolock, ex-Surprise, ex-Heliotrope)			Crown, Sunderland, UK	10/1939	5.6.1940	9/1940 // 1949	deleted 1979

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	925
Displacement full, t	1170
Length, m	57.9 pp 62.5 oa
Breadth, m	10.1
Draught, m	4.14 deep load
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	2750
Max speed, kts	16.5
Fuel, t	oil 230
Endurance, nm(kts)	3500(12)
Armament	Fu Po: 1 x 1 - 102/45 CP I, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (72) Kaifeng: 2 x 1 - 100/56 B-34, 1 x 1 - 45/68 21KM, 4 x 1 - 37/73 70K Linyi: 2 x 1 - 100/56 B-34, 2 x 1 - 37/73 70K
Electronic equipment	Fu Po: type 271 radar, type 128 sonar
Complement	109

Project history

Fu Po was transferred to China by Royal Navy, three other ships were Flower class corvettes, sold for mercantile service and later rearmed by PRC. Also they received Soviet weapons.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Fu Po collided with s/s Hai Ming 19.3.1947 in Formosa Strait and sank. Kaifeng was converted to survey vessel in 1974-1975, disarmed and served in this role till 1989. One more ship, ex-Maw Hwa, may also been rearmed, but if so she was no longer in service by the mid-1950s.

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