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MING CHUEN gunboat (1930)


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Ming Chuen 1930  

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
明川 [Ming Chuen], 1949- 咸寧 [Hsien Ning], 1950s- 張江 [Zhangjiang] 53, 1980- 219   Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai 1.1929 21.9.1929 1.1930 memorial 1984


Technical data


Displacement standard, t455
Displacement full, t500
Length, m61.8
Breadth, m7.92
Draught, m1.80
No of shafts2
Machinery2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.2400
Max speed, kts16.6
Fuel, tcoal 120
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament1 x 1 - 120/45 Armstrong QF, 1 x 1 - 102/45 Armstrong QF, 1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr Armstrong QF, 2 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss QF, 1 x 1 - 3pdr 47/40 Hotchkiss QF
Complement146


Standard scale images


<i>Zhangjiang </i>1980
Zhangjiang 1980
<i>Ming Chuen </i>1937
Ming Chuen 1937


Graphics


<i>Ming Chuen </i> 1930  
Ming Chuen 1930  


Project history

Slightly increased variant of Hsien Ning with slightly changed armament.

Modernizations

1960s, Zhangjian: was armed with 2 x 2 - 37/73 type 69, 3 x 2 - 25/68 type 61, radar

Naval service

In 1949 Ming Chuan was commissioned by Navy of Peoples Republic of China as Hsien Ning, then Chang Chiang. She served in PRC Naval Forces up to the end of 1970s and since 1984 was preserved as memorial.