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PEOPLE`S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY (PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)

CUSTOMS SHIPS

FEN HSING customs cruisers

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
馮興 <Fen Hsing>   Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai   1933 1933 lost 1937/38
連興 <Lien Hsing>   Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai   1933 1933 lost 1937/38
華興 <Hua Hsing>   Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai   1933 1933 lost 1937/38

 

Displacement normal, t

500

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

58.0

Breadth, m

9.75

Draught, m

3.35

No of shafts

2

Machinery

VTE, 2 boilers

Power, h. p.

2000

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

(1 - 2) x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss

Complement

 

Ship project history: Customs cruisers.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: After the beginning of Japanese-Chinese war in 1937 all Chinese customs fleet was destroyed by Japanese.

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