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CHIANG HSI river gunboats (1912)


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Chiang Kun 1929

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
江犀 [Chiang Hsi]     Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany 1911 1912 1912 sunk 24.8.1941
江鲲 [Chiang Kun]     Vulcan, Bremen, Germany 1911 1912 1912 sunk 24.8.1941


Technical data


Displacement normal, t140
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

Chiang Hsi: 43.9

Chiang Kun: 44.5
Breadth, m

Chiang Hsi: 7.50

Chiang Kun: 7.30
Draught, m

0.60
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Schultz boilers
Power, h. p.

Chiang Hsi: 450

Chiang Kun: 500
Max speed, kts

12
Fuel, tcoal 30
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 88/11 Krupp howitzer, 4 x 1 - 7.9/79
Complement

49


Standard scale images


<i>Chiang Hsi</i> 1912
Chiang Hsi 1912


Graphics


<i>Chiang Kun </i>1929
Chiang Kun 1929
<i>Chiang Hsi </i>1929
Chiang Hsi 1929


Project history

Built in Germany in 1911-1912 and assembled from ready sections by Kiangnan in Shanghai in 1912. Project was developed on the basis of German river gunboat Otter. Ships were originally called Hsin Pei and Hsi Chen, renamed at completion. On Canton dialect names were read as Kiang Hsi and Kiang Kun.

Modernizations

1930, Chiang Hsin: was armed with 1 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim

1930, Chiang Kun: was armed with 2 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim

Naval service

Both were sunk 24.8.1941 by Japanese aircraft on Yangtze at Patung (province Sichuan). Last Chinese ships lost in WWII!