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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
天戟 [Tien Chi]			Kiangnan DYd		1868	1868	discarded 1902

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	600
Displacement full, t
Length, m	56.4
Breadth, m	8.30
Draught, m
No of shafts	side wheels
Machinery	1 HSE, 1 rectangular boiler
Power, h. p.	150
Max speed, kts
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	15 x 1 - 155/8 SBML howitzers
Complement

Project history

First Chinese-built warship. Wooden hull, boiler was made by an dockyard but her engine was a second-hand purchased from scrapped old vessel. Served on Yangtze.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014