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WEI CHING wooden gunboat (1870)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
威靖 [Wei Ching]     Kiangnan DYd   1870 1870 discarded 1902


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1000

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

62.5

Breadth, m

9.85

Draught, m 
No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HSE, 1 rectangular boiler

Power, h. p.

600

Max speed, kts12.5
Fuel, tcoal
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 178/16 Armstrong MLR, 4 x 1 - 127/14 Armstrong 56pdr BLR

Complement 


Project history

Wooden-hulled gunboat for Yangtze service with Nanyang Fleet.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.

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