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HSIEN NING minelayer (1927/1946)


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Hsien Ning 1947

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
咸寧 [Hsien Ning] (ex-興津 [Okitsu], ex-Lepanto)     CNR, Ancona, Italy 1925 22.5.1927 1927 // 1946 to Taiwan 7.1949 (咸寧 [Hsien Ning])


Technical data


Displacement standard, t700
Displacement full, t~ 850
Length, m

62.2

Breadth, m

8.69

Draught, m

2.59

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 water-tube boilers

Power, h. p.

1500

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, toil 75
Endurance, nm(kts)3500(10)
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 4 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (36)

Electronic equipment3-shiki 1-go radar
Complement184


Standard scale images


<i>Hsien Ning</i> 1946
Hsien Ning 1946


Graphics


<i>Hsien Ning </i>1947
Hsien Ning 1947


Project history

Former Italian minelayer Lepanto, scuttled by own crew at Shanghai 9.9.1943. In February, 1944 she was salvaged by Japanese and in March commissioned as gunboat. Okitsu was 21.3.1945 hard damaged by American Army aircraft, in August, 1945 she surrendered to Allies and transferred to China.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.

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