NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
海华 [Hai Hoha]			Schichau, Elbing, Germany	1897	1898	1898	captured by Russia 17.6.1900 (Лейтенант Бураков [Leytenant Burakov])
海龙 [Hai Lung]			Schichau, Elbing, Germany	1897	1898	1898	captured by United Kingdom 17.6.1900 (Taku)
海犀 [Hai Hse]			Schichau, Elbing, Germany	1897	1898	1898	captured by France 17.6.1900 (Takou)
海青 [Hai Ying]			Schichau, Elbing, Germany	1897	1898	1898	captured by Germany 17.6.1900 (Taku)

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	243
Displacement full, t	284
Length, m	59.0
Breadth, m	6.40
Draught, m	2.55
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	6000
Max speed, kts	33.6
Fuel, t	coal 67
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(10)
Armament	6 x 1 - 47/30 Hotchkiss Mk II, 2 x 1 - 356 TT
Complement	57

Standard scale images

Project history

These steel-hulled destroyers featured a ram bow, a turtleback forecastle and two raked funnels. The 3pdr QFs were mounted on the broadside abreast the first and second funnels and aft, and the 356mm TT were in trainable centreline mountings fore and aft of the second funnel.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

All four vessels were captured at Taku on 17.6.1900 by the International expedition that was relieving the Peking Legations, and one each went in service with the British, French, German and Russian navies, all being renamed Taku (Takou in the case of the French boat). Hai Hoha became Russian Taku (later Leytenant Burakov), Hai Lung became British Taku, Hai Ying  became German Taku and Hai Hse French Takou.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014