Chinese cruiser Hai Yung
19th century imperial Chinese cruiser / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hai Yung (Chinese: 海容; pinyin: Hǎiróng) was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Chinese Navy. Hai Yung was one of a class of three ships built in Germany for the Chinese after the losses of the First Sino-Japanese War.[1] The ship was a small protected cruiser with quick-firing guns, a departure from the prewar Chinese navy's emphasis on heavy but slow-firing weapons for its cruisers. Hai Yung resembled the British protected cruisers of the Apollo class and Italian Regioni class, and may have been modeled on the similar Dutch Gelderland-class cruisers.[2] Germany itself would increase the number of similar ships for its own navy starting with the Gazelle class and its faster successors up until World War I.
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Name | Hai Yung |
Builder | Vulcan |
Launched | 15 September 1897 |
Completed | 1898 |
Fate | Scuttled 11 August 1937 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Hai Yung-class protected cruiser |
Displacement | 2680 tons |
Length | 328 ft (100.0 m) |
Beam | 40 ft 9 in (12.4 m) |
Draft | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
Propulsion | 2-shaft reciprocating VTE, 7,500 ihp (5,600 kW), 8 cylindrical boilers, 200–580 tons coal |
Speed | 19.5 knots (22.4 mph; 36.1 km/h) |
Complement | 244 |
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In 1906 Hai Yung was sent on a six-month journey to survey the conditions of overseas Chinese communities in South-East Asia.[3] Much of the navy switched loyalties to the rebellion that overthrew the Manchu dynasty in 1911.[citation needed]. On 24 April 1916, Hai Yung collided with the Chinese Army transport ship Hsin-Yu in the East China Sea south of the Chusan Islands. Hsin-Yu sank with the loss of about 1,000 lives.[4]
Hai Yung and her sister ships survived the revolution and were obsolete by 1935, when they were discarded.[5] They all were scuttled as blockships in the Yangtze on 11 August 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War.[6]