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Li Sui 1937

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
李璲 [Li Sui] (ex-Vaterland)			Schichau, Elbing, Germany	1902	26.8.1903	5.1904 // 1933	TS 1941, captured by USSR 22.8.1945 (Пекин [Pekin])

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	223
Displacement full, t	280
Length, m	48.0 wl 50.1 oa
Breadth, m	8.00
Draught, m	0.94
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Schultz-Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	1300
Max speed, kts	13
Fuel, t	coal 85
Endurance, nm(kts)	1630(9)
Armament	2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 7.7/80
Complement	50

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Project history

Former German river gunboat Vaterland, requisitioned by China at Nanking 20.3.1917, when China declared war to Germany, and renamed Li Sui. Subsequently she was translated to Sungari. In 1932 she was in failure condition captured by Japanese troops and enlisted by Sungari flotilla of Manchukuo. In 1933 she was repaired by Kawasaki in Harbin and commissioned. Japanese name was Risui. In 1937 gunboat can make only 7kts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

In 1941 Li Sui was converted to TS, 22.8.1945 captured by Soviet troops in Harbin and commissioned by Soviet Navy as TS Pekin.