PEOPLE`S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY (PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)
Yung Chien 1937
| Name | No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| 永谦 <Yung Chien>, 1951- 延安 <Yen An> | Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai | 1914 | 1914 | 1915 | scuttled 25/8/1937, re-commissioned 1946, stricken 1964 | |
| 永解 <Yung Chi> | Kiangnan DYd, Shanghai | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | sunk 21/10/1938, to Nanking 5/1940 (Hai Hsing), re-captured 9/1945, stricken 1964 |
|
Displacement normal, t |
860 |
|
Displacement full, t |
1039 |
|
Length, m |
62.5 pp 65.7 oa |
|
Breadth, m |
9.00 |
|
Draught, m |
3.50 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
VTE, 2 watertube boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
1350 |
|
Max speed, kts |
13 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal 150 |
|
Endurance, nm(kts) |
|
| Armour, mm | deck: 25 |
|
Armament |
1 x 1 - 102/40 Armstrong QF, 1 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong, 4 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 37/32 Maxim |
|
Complement |
105 |
Ship project history: Built under the 1910 program in Shanghai as third and fourth ships of Yung Feng class, but under slightly changed project, with poop.
Modernizations: 1946, Yung Chien: was armed by 2 x 1 - 76/40 3-shiki
Naval service:
Yung Chien was sunk 25/8/1937 by Japanese ships (on other data by aircrafts
from carrier Kaga) at Kiangnan shipyard in Shanghai where she was under repair; 18/12/1937
she was salvaged by Japanese, repaired and 25/10/1938 commissioned by IJN as
depot ship Asuka; in 1945 she was converted to AA ship and rearmed; 7/5/1945
she was sunk by American aircraft in a mouth of Yellow River. After war she was
salvaged and commissioned again under former name as gunboat; since 1949 she
served under PRC flag, in 1951 renamed Yen An and stricken in 1964.
Yung Chi 21/10/1938 was hard damaged by Japanese aircraft on
Yangtze off in r-not
Jinshi and ran aground; 8/11/1938 she was captured by Japanese,
salvaged, repaired later and 22/5/1940 transferred to puppet Nanjing Government as Hai Hsing. In September, 1945
she was captured by Kuomintang army and
commissioned under former name. 25/4/1949 she was sunk by communists forces on
Yangtze, subsequently salvaged and
commissioned by PRC Navy under former name, stricken in 1964.
Yung Chien 1929
Yeng An 1947
© Ivan Gogin, 2011