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SUNG HWEI patrol trawlers (1941-1943/1949)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
(ex-Ching Hai, ex-Balta)     Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull, UK 8.1940 2.12.1940 5.1941 // 1949 deleted 1967
(ex-Sung Hwei, ex-Hoxa)     Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull, UK 9.1940 15.1.1941 6.1941 // 1949 deleted 1967


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

545

Displacement full, t770
Length, m50.0
Breadth, m8.43
Draught, m3.38 deep load
No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

850

Max speed, kts

12.25

Fuel, t

coal 183

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 HA/LA IX, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (30), mechanical minesweeping gear

Electronic equipmenttype 271 or type 290 radar, type 122 sonar
Complement

35 - 40



Standard scale images


<i>Killegray</i> 1952
Killegray 1952


Project history

Former British Isles class trawlers, disarmed and sold to Chinese merchant owners. In 1949 they were taken by Communist forces and recommissioned by PLAN.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.

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