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TUNG CHI unprotected cruiser (1896)


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Tung Chi 1929

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
同濟 [Tung Chi]     Foochow DYd 1893 1894 8/1896 TS 1909, scuttled 11.8.1937


Technical data


Displacement normal, t1900
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

77.0 pp

Breadth, m

10.4

Draught, m

4.88

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VC, 4 boilers

Power, h. p.1600
Max speed, kts11.6
Fuel, tcoal 200
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 152/40 Armstrong U, 5 x 1 - 120/45 Armstrong Y, 3 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 8 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss

Complement335


Standard scale images


<i>Tung Chi </i>1933
Tung Chi 1933


Graphics


<i>Tung Chi </i>1929
Tung Chi 1929


Project history

Laid down at Fuzhou as transport Chien Chung; in 1896 it has been decided to complete ship as unprotected training cruiser for Shanghai flotilla, in the end of the same year, soon after commission, ship was renamed Tung Chi. The first steel-hulled ship completely built in China.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

11.8.1937 Tung Chi was scuttled on Yangtze at Jiangyin for fairway barrage.

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