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Mei Yuan 1947  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
梅原 [Mei Yuan] (ex-Tutuila)			Kiangnan Dock, Shanghai	10.1926	14.6.1927	3.1928 // 2.1942	discarded 1966
太原 [Tai Yuan] (ex-多々良 [Tatara], ex-Wake, ex-Guam)			Kiangnan Dock, Shanghai	1926	28.5.1927	12.1927 // 1946	discarded 1966

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	370
Displacement full, t	395
Length, m	45.7 wl 48.6 oa
Breadth, m	8.25
Draught, m	1.55 mean
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	1950
Max speed, kts	14.5
Fuel, t	oil 75
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 3.5.6, 10 x 1 - 7.6/90
Complement	70

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Project history

Mei Yuan was former American river gunboat PR4 Tutuila built in Shanghai. 19.3.1942 she was presented to China. Simultaneously by default also was presented her sister-ship PR3 Wake, captured by Japanese in 1941 and commissioned by IJN as Tatara. She was commissioned by Chinese Navy as Tai Yuan only in 1946.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Both since 1949 were a part of PRC Navy.