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CHAI WE river gunboats (1932)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
柴灣 [Chai We]     Bailey, Hong Kong   1931 1932 sunk 9-10/1937
常澄[Chang Chiang]     Bailey, Hong Kong   1932 1932 probably sunk 9.1937


Technical data


Displacement standard, t210
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

43.0

Breadth, m

7.40

Draught, m

1.47

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

520

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, tcoal
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr Armstrong QF, 1 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I/II, 6 x 1 - 7.7/87

Complement 


Project history

Built at Hong Kong on the sample of British Fly class gunboats. On Canton dialect their names were read as Kien Yu (Chien Yu) and Chiang Chien.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Chai We was sunk by Japanese aircraft at Canton (Guangzhou) in late September-early October, 1937; fate of Chang Chiang is unknown; possibly, she was lost at Canton in 1937.

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