Yongfeng-class coastal defense ship
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 Republic of China
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| Name: | Yongfeng |
| Ordered: | 4 |
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| Laid down: | 1910 |
| Launched: | 1912 |
| Completed: | 1918 |
| Acquired: | 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 1959 |
| Out of service: | 1959 |
| Fate: | See main text |
| Status: | See main text |
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.svg){kind=small} Zhili Clique
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| Fate: | Defected to ROCN |
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 Japan
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| Name: | Asuka |
| Acquired: | 1945 |
| Struck: | 1945 |
| Fate: | Sunk on May 7, 1945 |
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.svg){kind=small} Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China (RNGROC)
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| Name: | Haixing (海兴) |
| Acquired: | May 22, 1940 |
| Fate: | Captured by ROCN after World War II |
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 People's Republic of China
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| Name: | Yan'an |
| Namesake: | Yan'an |
| Acquired: | 1950 |
| Struck: | scrapped in 1970s |
| Fate: | retired in 1970 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Gunboat |
| Displacement: | 780 long tons (790 t) |
| Length: | 214 ft (65 m) |
| Beam: | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Draught: | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1,350 hp (1,010 kW) from 2 coal-burning steam turbines |
| Speed: | 14 knots (16 mph; 26 km/h) |
| Complement: | 121 sailors + 21 officers |
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The Yongfeng-class coastal defense ships were a class of four Chinese coastal defense ships built by Japan and China respectively, each building a pair. Due to their small size, these ships are also frequently referred as gunboats.
Ordered by the government of the Qing dynasty in 1910 under the deal signed between the Qing navy minister Zaixun, his deputy admiral Sa Zhenbing and the Japanese, the first two ships Yongfeng (永丰) and Yongxiang (永翔) were built by Japan, and the second pair Yongjian (永健) and Yongji (永绩) were built by Jiangnan Shipyard in China with technical help from Japan. All four ships differed slightly from one another.
Yongfeng is the first ship of this class and one of the most famous Chinese warships, not only because it was a participant of many historical events in China, but also the name it was subsequently changed to: Zhongshan. Originally stationed in Yuezhou (in modern Hunan) after it was commissioned, the ship was one of the ships led by Admiral Cheng Biguang that sailed to Guangzhou on July 22, 1917 to Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s side in the Constitutional Protection Movement. The ship was ordered to be renamed as Zhongshan after Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s death on March 30, 1925, with formal renaming ceremony held on April 13 of the same year. A year later, the ship became the center of the Zhongshan Warship Incident.
After being sunk by a Japanese aerial attack on October 24, 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the ship was finally salvaged nearly six decades later in 1997, and restoration of the ship formally began on November 12, 1999. After the completion of restoration, the ship became a museum ship at Jiangxia District, approximately 25 km southwest of downtown Wuchang.
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