- Chinese gunboat Pingyuan
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In the Japanese service, as Heien'Career (China) Name: Longwei
PingyuanBuilder: Foochow Arsenal, Mawei, China Laid down: 1 January 1883 Launched: 1888 Completed: 1890 Fate: Captured by Japan, 1895 Career (Japan) Name: Ping Yuen Go
HeienAcquired: 27 July 1894 Fate: Mined off Pigeon Bay (Piegen Bay) west of Port Arthur, 18 September 1904 General characteristics Displacement: 2,150 long tons (2,185 t) Length: 60.96 m (200 ft) w/l Beam: 12.19 m (40 ft) Draft: 4.19 m (13 ft 9 in) Propulsion: 2-shaft reciprocating triple expansion steam engine, 2,400 shp (1,790 kW)
2 boilers
350 tons coalSpeed: 10.5 knots (12.1 mph; 19.4 km/h) Complement: 202 Armament: • 1 × 260 mm (10 in) gun
• 2 × 150 mm (6 in) guns
• 8 × machine guns
• 4 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubesArmor: • Belt: 203 mm (8 in)
• Deck: 508 mm (20 in)
• Turret: 127 mm (5 in)The Pingyuan (Chinese:平远) was a Chinese armored coastal warship built by the Mawei Navy Yard, modelled on the French gunboat. The name is also spelled Ping Yuen, Ping Yuan or Ping-yüan. The Pingyuan was firstly named Longwei (Chinese:龙威), and was the first Chinese-built ironclad, though some of its components were imported from abroad. The Pingyuan was part of the Beiyang Fleet.
Career
The Pingyuan fought in the Battle of the Yalu River, damaging the Japanese flagship Matsushima, and was later captured in the siege of Weihaiwei. She was then commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy, firstly as the Ping Yuen Go and later the Heien.
External links
Categories:- Ships of the Imperial Beiyang Navy
- Ships built in China
- 1888 ships
- First Sino-Japanese War naval ships of China
- Naval ship stubs
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