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HEI YEN coastal defence ironclad (1889 / 1895)


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Ping Yuan 1895

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
平遠 [Hei Yen] (ex-平遠 [Ping Yuan], ex-Lung Wei)     Foochow Arsenal, China 7.12.1886 29.1.1888 28.9.1889 // 16.3.1895 sunk 18.9.1904


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

2150

Displacement full, t2640
Length, m

60.0 pp 70.2 wl

Breadth, m

12.2

Draught, m

4.21

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 4 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

2400

Max speed, kts

10.2

Fuel, t

coal 350

Endurance, nm(kts)3000(8)
Armour, mm

belt: 203 - 125, deck: 50, barbette: 125, cupola and shields: 25, CT: 125

Armament

1 x 1 - 263/32 RKL/35 C/84, 2 x 1 - 149/32 RKL/35 C/80, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 10 - 11.4/94, 2 - 350 TT (1 bow, 1 stern)

Complement

204



Standard scale images


<i>Hei Yen </i>1903
Hei Yen 1903


Graphics


<i>Ping Yuan </i>1895
Ping Yuan 1895


Project history

The Hei Yen (ex-Chinese Ping Yuen) was captured at Wei-Hai-Wei on 12 February 1895. She was refitted and commissioned 16.3.1895 into the Imperial Navy as a gunnery training ship.

Ship protection

Main belt was 2.1m-high and 203mm-thick abreast machinery and magazines, 2.1m-high and 125mm-thick at fore and 1.22m-high and 150mm-thick at aft parts. Protected deck was 50mm at full length. Main gun was protected by 125mm barbette and 25mm cupola.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

During the Russo-Japanese war she served as a coastal bombardment ship and was stricken by Russian mine and sunk off Pigeon Bay, Port Arthur 18.9.1904.