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FU AN unprotected cruiser (1897)


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Fu An 1930s

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
福安 [Fu An]     Foochow DYd 1896 1897 1897 completed as transport, TS 1928, stricken 1932


Technical data


Displacement normal, t1700
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

76.8 pp

Breadth, m

11.6

Draught, m

5.49

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VC, 4 boilers

Power, h. p.1600
Max speed, kts10
Fuel, tcoal 170
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss

Military load 
Complement105


Standard scale images


<i>Fu An </i>1932
Fu An 1932


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<i>Fu An </i>1930s
Fu An 1930s


Project history

Unprotected cruiser (in a number of sources wrongly called Foo Sing), built after defeat in Japanese-Chinese war for Shanghai flotilla. Originally she carried three masts and sailing rig. She was laid down as cruiser but just before completion was converted to military transport

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

In the late 1928 Fu An was repaired and converted for usage as training ship of 4th (Canton) squadron. Information of armaments structure in 1930s is not present. In the early October, 1937 Fu An was scuttled as a hulk for fairway barrage in 6 miles off Wampoa at Canton (Guangzhou).

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