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CHIANG KUNG river gunboats (1909)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
江坤 [Chiang Kung]     Whampoa, Canton 1908 1909 3.1909 sunk 10.1938
江解 [Chiang Chi]     Whampoa, Canton 1908 1909 3.1909 lost 1938?
江口 [Chiang Ku]     Whampoa, Canton 1908 1909 3.1909 lost 1938?
江泰 [Chiang Tai]     Whampoa, Canton 1908 1909 3.1909 presumably sunk 26.9.1937


Technical data


Displacement standard, t160
Displacement full, t200
Length, m

44.0
Breadth, m

6.00
Draught, m

1.60 mean 2.30 max
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 VTE, 1 boiler
Power, h. p.

500
Max speed, kts

14
Fuel, t 
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N, 4 x 1 - 7.7/87
Complement

62


Standard scale images


<i>Chiang Kung</i> 1909
Chiang Kung 1909


Project history

A class was built at Hong Kong in 1908-1909, assembled in Canton, assemblage was completed in March, 1909. On construction they were close to British river gunboats of the beginnings of XX century. First Chinese ships equipped with radio. On Canton dialect names were read as Kiang Kung, Kiang Tai, Kiang Chin, Kiang Ku. Probably Chiang Chi in 1920s was renamed Lung Shan.

Modernizations

by 1936, all: - 3 x 1 - 7.7/87; + 1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr Armstrong QF, 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II

Naval service

Chiang Kung in October, 1938 was sunk by Japanese aircraft at Canton (Guangzhou); fate of remaining ships is unknown. Probably, Chiang Tai was sunk by Japanese aircraft at Canton 26.9.1937. It is probable also, that not all ships of class remained in service by 1937.

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