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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
飛鳥 [Asuga] (ex-永谦 [Yung Chien])			Kiangan Dock, China	1914	1914	1915 // 1945	sunk 7.5.1945, later to China (延安 [Yen An])

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	860
Displacement full, t	1020
Length, m	62.5 pp 65.7 oa
Breadth, m	9.00
Draught, m	3.50
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 water-tube boilers
Power, h. p.	1350
Max speed, kts	13.5
Fuel, t	coal 150
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 75/44 88-shiki, 4 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 4 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 1 x 1 - 13.2/76
Complement	143

Standard scale images

Project history

Former Chinese gunboat Yung Chien, captured by Japanese in 1937, renamed Asuga and entered service in the IJN as MTB depot ship. Since 1940 she was used at Shanghai.

In 1945 Asuga was reclassified to AA floating battery.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

7.5.1945 Asuga was sunk by American aircraft in mouth of Yellow River. After war she was salvaged and commissioned by Chinese Navy as Yen An.