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Ye Sheng 1929

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
沂山 [Yi Sheng]     Foochow DYd   1911 1911 sunk 11.11.1938
運山 [Yung Sheng]     Foochow DYd   1928 1928 sunk 11.11.1938
昆山 [Kung Sheng]     Foochow DYd   1931 1931 sunk 10.1938
燕山 [Jen Sheng]     Foochow DYd   1931 1931 sunk 11.11.1938


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

Ye Sheng: 350

Yung Sheng, Kung Sheng, Jen Sheng: 300
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

Ye Sheng: 36.7

Yung Sheng: 38.1

Kung Sheng, Jen Sheng: 36.6
Breadth, m

Ye Sheng: 6.25

Yung Sheng, Kung Sheng, Jen Sheng: 6.40
Draught, m

Ye Sheng: 3.35

Yung Sheng: 2.13

Kung Sheng, Jen Sheng: 2.29
No of shafts

1
Machinery

1 VTE, 1 boiler
Power, h. p.

500
Max speed, kts

10
Fuel, t 
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

Ye Sheng: 1 x 1 - 65/50 Schneider-Canet M1902, 1 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.7/87

Yung Sheng, Kung Sheng, Jen Sheng: 1 x 1 - 76/50 Armstrong 14pdr QF, 1 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.7/87
Complement

Ye Sheng: 37

Yung Sheng: 42

Kung Sheng, Jen Sheng: 47


Graphics


<i>Ye Sheng </i> 1929
Ye Sheng 1929
<i>Yung Sheng </i> 1929
Yung Sheng 1929
<i>Jen Sheng </i> 1931
Jen Sheng 1931


Project history

Patrols and survey vessels, development of Chen Sheng. In 1938 they were also used as minelayers.

Modernizations

1938, all: + mines.

Naval service

Kung Sheng in October, 1938 was sunk by Japanese aircraft at Canton (Guangzhou). Yi Sheng, Jen Sheng and Yung Sheng 11.11.1938 were sunk by Japanese aircraft on Yangtze off Yueyang.