Zhongshan (warship)
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| History | |
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 Republic of China
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| Ordered: | 1910 |
| Builder: | Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Nagasaki Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 1910 |
| Launched: | 1912 |
| Commissioned: | 1913 |
| Maiden voyage: | March 1913 |
| Renamed: | 1925 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Yongfeng-class gunboat |
| Displacement: | 780 tons |
| Length: | 65.873 m (216.12 ft) |
| Beam: | 8.8 m (29 ft) |
| Draught: | 3.048 m (10.00 ft) |
| Speed: | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement: | 140 |
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| Postal | SS Chung Shan | ||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhōngshān Jiàn |
| Wade–Giles | Chung-shan Chien |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Zung¹-saan¹ Laam⁶ |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Yǒngfēng Jiàn |
| Wade–Giles | Yung-feng Chien |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | Wing¹-fung⁵ Laam⁶ |
The SS Zhongshan,formerly romanized as Chung Shan, was a Chinese coastal defense ship of 780 tons. Built in Japan in 1913, it was originally known as the SS Yongfeng (romanized at the time as Yung Feng or Wong Feng) before being renamed in 1925 in honor of Sun Yat-sen, better known in China as Sun Zhongshan. This ship and others of its class are frequently classified as gunboats.
The SS Yongfeng was the first of four 780-ton Yongfeng-class coastal defense ships ordered from Mitsubishi by the Qing Empire in 1910. Under the deal signed between the Qing naval minister Zaixun, his deputy admiral Sa Zhenbing, and the Japanese, the first two ships were built in Japan and the second pair at Jiangnan Shipyard in China with Japanese technical help. All four ships differed slightly from one another. Due to their small size (less than 1000 tons displacement), these ships are also frequently referred as gunboats.
The Yongfeng entered service as part of the Beiyang Fleet. In March 1913, it sailed to Shanghai, where it was based at Yuezhou.
It sailed south with Sun Yat-sen in July 1917, subsequently forming part of the Nationalist navy at Guangzhou (then "Canton").
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