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Hai Yung 1929

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
海容 [Hai Yung]			Vulkan, Bremen, Germany	1896	15.9.1897	1898	scuttled 11.8.1937
海筹 [Hai Chou]			Vulkan, Bremen, Germany	1896	11.12.1897	1898	scuttled 11.8.1937
海琛 [Hai Chen]			Vulkan, Bremen, Germany	1896	12.2.1898	1898	scuttled 11.8.1937

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	2680
Displacement full, t	2950
Length, m	100.0
Breadth, m	12.4
Draught, m	5.79
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 8 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	7500
Max speed, kts	19.5
Fuel, t	coal 580
Endurance, nm(kts)	2100(10)
Armour, mm	deck: 32 with 70mm slopes, shields: 51, CT: 37
Armament	3 x 1 - 149/37 SK L/40 C/97, 8 x 1 - 105/37 SK L/40 C/97, 6 x 1 - 47/37 SK L/40 C/91, 3 - 356 TT (1 bow, 2 beam)
Complement	244

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Project history

Small 2nd class protected cruisers, ordered simultaneously with two larger ships of Hai Chi class after the Japanese-Chinese war. They were built in Germany by Vulkan, traditional shipbuilder of Chinese Navy. Hai Chen is sometimes transcribed as Hai Shen.     Hull had forecastle, poop and ram-shaped stem. 150mm/40 guns were placed on characteristic for Chinese ships of the end of XIX century "triangular" scheme: two aside on forecastle, the third on poop. 105mm and 47mm guns were installed on an upper deck.

Ship protection

Machinery was protected by 32mm deck with 70mm slopes, turtleback-form deck at ship ends had 25mm thickness. 150mm guns were protected by 51mm shields.

Modernizations

1930s, all: + 1 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II

Naval service

All three cruisers by 1937 were deduced from fleet list and 11.8.1937 were scuttled on river Yangtze at Jiangyin for fairway barrage.

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