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Ming Sen 1931  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
明行 [Ming Sen]			Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai	1.1931	5.5.1931	11.1931	scuttled 12.11.1938

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	460
Displacement full, t	600
Length, m	64.0
Breadth, m	8.20
Draught, m	1.98
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	3600
Max speed, kts	18
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 120/45 Armstrong QF, 1 x 1 - 102/45 Armstrong QF, 2 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr Armstrong QF, 2 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss QF
Complement	115

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Project history

Repeat of Ming Chuan with minor alterations in a hull structure and armament. She was laid down at Shanghai after launch of Yi Hsien, and after launch of Ming Sen on exempted slipway light cruiser Ping Hai was laid down.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

27.10.1938 Ming Sen was hard damaged by Japanese aircraft on Yangtze at Hankow (Wuhan); 12.11.1938 she was scuttled at Hankow. She was salvaged by Japanese in 1939, renamed Hitonose and commissioned by IJN as repair ship; 21.12.1944 she was lost as result of collision with merchant vessel Kosho at Shanghai; she was salvaged again, but then was lost on a mine.