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Fei Ting 1895

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
飛霆 [Fei Ting] (ex-Sea Serpent)			White, Cowes, UK // Armstrong, Elswick, UK	1887	1887	9/1894 // 6.1895	captured by United Kingdom, France, Germany and Russia 17.6.1900

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	349
Displacement full, t	401
Length, m	63.7 oa
Breadth, m	7.17
Draught, m	3.05 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE
Power, h. p.	3000
Max speed, kts	21.2
Fuel, t	coal 104
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	steel; CT: 45
Armament	2 x 1 - 95/40 Armstrong 25pdr QF, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 1 - 356 TT (bow), 2 x 2 - 356 TT (12)
Complement	50

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Project history

Originally named Sea Serpent this steel-hulled vessel was laid down in 1887 as a stock boat by J S White and was purchased, rebuilt and strengthened by Armstrong at Elswick between March and September 1894. She was purchased by China but delivery was delayed until June 1895 by the Sino-Japanese war.

She had a ram bow, two pole masts and two funnels side by side abaft the foremast. The two 25pdr Armstrong QFs were mounted fore and aft, with the 3pdr QFs amidships. She had one fixed 356mm bow TT and two centreline twin training mountings on the upper deck amidships. She carried twelve Schwarzkopf torpedoes.

Ship protection

CT had 45mm sides.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Fei Ting was captured by the joint British-French-German-Russian expedition to drydock at Taku on 17.6.1900.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014