Chinese gunboat Zhongshan
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SS Zhongshan,[1] formerly romanized as Chung Shan,[2][3] was a Chinese gunboat built in Japan in 1913. It was originally known as SS Yongfeng[4] (romanized at the time as Yung Feng[5] or Wong Feng),[6] before being renamed in 1925 in honor of Sun Yat-sen. Zhongshan was sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War, but was later raised and restored as a museum ship in Wuhan.
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SS Zhongshan | |
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Republic of China | |
Ordered | 1910 |
Builder | Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Nagasaki Dockyard |
Laid down | 1910 |
Launched | 1912 |
Commissioned | 1913 |
Maiden voyage | March 1913 |
Renamed | 1925 |
Fate | Sunk during the Battle of Wuhan on October 24, 1938 |
Status | Recovered in 1997 and restored as a museum ship |
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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Quick Facts SS Zhongshan, Traditional Chinese ...
SS Zhongshan | |||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 中山艦 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 中山舰 | ||||||||||||
Postal | SS Chung Shan | ||||||||||||
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SS Yongfeng | |||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 永豐艦 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 永丰舰 | ||||||||||||
Postal | SS Yung Feng | ||||||||||||
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