Chinese cruiser Hai Yung

Career (China)
Name:	Hai Yung
Builder:	Vulcan (German shipbuilder)
Launched:	1897
Completed:	1898
Out of service:	1937
General characteristics
Type:	protected cruiser
Displacement:	2680 tons
Length:	328 ft (100.0 m)
Beam:	40 ft 9 in (12.4 m)
Draft:	19 ft (5.8 m)
Propulsion:	2-shaft reciprocating VTE, 7,500 ihp (5,600 kW), 8 cylindrical boilers, 200-580 tons coal
Speed:	19.5 knots (22.4 mph; 36.1 km/h)
Complement:	244
Armament:	• 3 × 150 mm (5.9 in) QF guns • 8 × 105 mm (4.1 in) QF guns • 3 × 14 in (360 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:	protected deck 2.75 in. over machinery and 1.5in. at ends; shields 2 in., CT 1.5 in.

Hai Yung was a protected cruiser of the Chinese Navy. The Hai Yung was one of a class of three ships built in Germany for the Chinese after the losses of the First Sino-Japanese War. ^[1] The ship was a small protected cruiser with quick-firing guns, a departure from the prewar Chinese navy’s emphasis on heavy but slow-firing weapons for its cruisers. The Hai Yung resembled the British protected cruisers of the Apollo class and Italian World War I.

In 1906 the Hai Yung was sent on a six-month journey to survey the conditions of overseas Chinese communities in South-East Asia.^[3] Much of the navy switched loyalties to the rebellion that overthrew the Manchu dynasty in 1911. The Hai Yung and its sister ships survived the revolution and were obsolete by the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Hai Yung along with her sister ships were designated to be scuttled as river blockships in 1937.

References

1. ^ Conways, p. 397
2. ^ Wright, p. 111
3. ^ Wright, p. 123

Bibliography

• Gardiner, Robert, ed (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860—1905. New York: Mayflower Books. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4. 
• Wright, R., The Chinese Steam Navy, 1862–1945 (London, 2001)