Chinese gunboat Pingyuan
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Builder: | Foochow Arsenal, Mawei, China |
Laid down: | 1 January 1883 |
Launched: | 1888 |
Completed: | 1890 |
Fate: | Captured by Japan, 1895 |
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Acquired: | 27 July 1894 |
Fate: | Mined off Pigeon Bay (Piegen Bay) west of Port Arthur, 18 September 1904 |
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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) |
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Speed: | 10.5 knots (12.1 mph; 19.4 km/h) |
Complement: | 202 |
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Pingyuan (Chinese:平远) was a Chinese armored cruiser built by the Mawei Navy Yard, modelled on the French Acheron-class gunboat. The name is also spelled Ping Yuen, Ping Yuan or Ping-yüan. Pingyuan was firstly named Longwei (Chinese:龙威), and was the first Chinese-built ironclad, though some of its components were imported from abroad. Pingyuan was part of the Beiyang Fleet.
Career
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 Ping Yuen Go and later as Heien.
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Coordinates: 38°57′N 120°56′E / 38.950°N 120.933°E
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