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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Taku (ex-海青 [Hai Jing])		608	Schichau, Elbing	1897	3.1898	7.1898 // 6.1900	discarded 6.1914

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	243
Displacement full, t	284
Length, m	59.0
Breadth, m	6.40
Draught, m	2.55
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 4 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	5000
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	coal 67
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(12)
Armament	6 x 1 - 47/30 21/2pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	57

Standard scale images

Project history

Chinese destroyer, captured by Roger Keyes' boarding party in 1900, during the allied operations against the Taku forts, with her three sisters.

Modernizations

1902: - 6 x 1 - 47/30; + 2 x 1 - 50/37 SK L/40 C/92

Naval service

 Taku was stricken in cause of poor techical conditions (boilers were inoperable) and scuttled 28.9.1914 at Tsingtao.