Protected Cruiser Hairong | World War II Database

Hairong

Country	China
Ship Class	Hairong-class Protected Cruiser
Builder	Aktien-Gesellschaft Vulcan Stettin, Germany
Launched	15 Sep 1897
Sunk	25 Aug 1937
Displacement	2680 tons standard; 2950 tons full
Length	328 feet
Beam	41 feet
Draft	19 feet
Machinery	Four coal boilers, two turbines, two shafts
Bunkerage	200-580 tons of coal
Power Output	7500 SHP
Speed	19 knots
Crew	244
Armament	3x150mm Krupp QF guns, 8x105mm Krupp QF guns, 1x60mm Krupp gun, 6x37mm Hotchkiss guns, 6x8mm Maxim machine guns, 3x360mm torpedo tubes
Armor	25-70mm deck, 51mm turret shields, 38mm conning tower

Contributor: C. Peter Chen

Hairong (romanized via the Postal Map System as Hai Yung) was the lead ship of her class of protected cruisers built in Germany for the Chinese Navy at the cost of £163,000. In 1906, she embarked on a six-month tour in Southeast Asia visiting Chinese communities. In 1911, she was initially used to bombard revolutionary forces at Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, but would switch sides in Nov. Although she went through modernization in 1930, which added an anti-aircraft gun, by the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War began in 1937 she was obsolete, thus when the need rose to block the Yangtze River from Japanese use, Hairong became one of the older ships scuttled in the middle of the river at Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China for this purpose.

Source: Wikipedia

Hairong Operational Timeline

15 Sep 1897	Hairong was launched by AG Vulcan in Germany.
27 Jul 1898	Hairong arrived at Tianjin, China.
25 Aug 1937	Hairong was scuttled in the Yangtze River at Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China to block Japanese movement up river.

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