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MEI YUAN river gunboats (1927-1928/1942-1946)


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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, t395
Length, m

45.7 wl 48.6 oa

Breadth, m

8.25

Draught, m

1.55 mean

No of shafts2
Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

1950

Max speed, kts

14.5

Fuel, toil 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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<i>Mei Yuan </i> 1947  
Mei Yuan 1947  


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.