PEOPLE`S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY (PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)
Mei Yuan 1942
| Name | No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| 梅原 <Mei Yuan> (ex-PR4 Tutuila) | Kiangnan Dock, Shanghai | 10/1926 | 14/6/1927 | 3/1928 // 2/1942 | discarded 1966 | |
| 太原 <Tai Yuan> (ex-Tatara, ex-PR3 Wake, ex-PR3 Guam) | Kiangnan Dock, Shanghai | 1926 | 28/5/1927 | 12/1927 // 1946 | discarded 1966 |
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Displacement standard, t |
370 |
|
Displacement full, t |
395 |
|
Length, m |
45.7 wl 48.6 oa |
|
Breadth, m |
8.25 |
|
Draught, m |
1.55 mean |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
1950 |
|
Max speed, kts |
14.5 |
|
Fuel, t |
oil 75 |
| Endurance, nm (kts) | |
|
Armament |
2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 2/3/5/6/8, 10 x 1 - 7.6/90 |
| Complement |
70 |
Ship project history: Mei Yuan was former American river gunboat PR4 Tutuila built in Shanghai. 19/3/1942 she was presented to China. Simultaneously by default also was presented her sister-ship PR3 Wake, captured by Japanese in 1941 and commissioned by IJN as Tatara. She was commissioned by Chinese Navy as Tai Yuan only in 1946.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Both since 1949 were a part of PRC Navy.
Mei Yuan 1947
© Ivan Gogin, 2011