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TIEN CHI wooden gunboat (1868)


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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, tcoal
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