Chinese cruiser Yat Sen
Chinese Navy warship / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yat Sen (Chinese: 逸仙; pinyin: Yixian), named after the founding father Sun Yat-sen of the Republic of China and completed in 1931, was a light cruiser— having more in common with the small cruisers of pre–World War I era—in the ROC Navy before World War II. An enlarged design was laid down but never completed due to the Japanese occupation of Jiangnan shipyard.
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The chinese light cruiser Yat Sen in early 1930s. | |
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Republic of China | |
Name | Yat Sen /Yi Xian |
Namesake | Sun Yat-sen, founding father of the Republic of China |
Builder | Jiangnan Dock and Engineering Works, Shanghai, China |
Launched | November 12th,1931 |
Commissioned | October 10, 1934 |
Decommissioned | June 1, 1958 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, 19 May 1959 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Light cruiser |
Displacement | 1,650 t (1,624 long tons) |
Length | 270 ft (82 m) |
Beam | 34 ft (10 m) |
Draught | 12.4 ft (3.8 m) |
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Speed | 19 knots (22 mph; 35 km/h) |
Complement | 182 |
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