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CHEN TSE torpedo boats (1896)


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1929

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
鎮字 [No2 Chen Tse]     Vulcan, Bremen, Germany   1895 1896 scuttled 11.8.1937
守字 [No4 Su Tse]     Vulcan, Bremen, Germany   1895 1896 scuttled 11.8.1937


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

90

Displacement full, t126
Length, m

43.9

Breadth, m

5.18

Draught, m2.40
No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 boilers

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 2 - 450 TT (bow), 1 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement31


Standard scale images


<i>Chen Tse </i>1933
Chen Tse 1933


Graphics


1929
1929


Project history

Under builder statements, on trials both ships made up to 24kts at 1250hp, but to 1930 their speed significantly fallen.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Both boats were scuttled 11.8.37 on Yangtze at Jiangyin for fairway barrage.

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