''Hai Yung'' () was a

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of the

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. ''Hai Yung'' was one of a

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of three ships built in Germany for the Chinese after the losses of the

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.Conways, p. 397 The ship was a small protected cruiser with quick-firing guns, a departure from the prewar Chinese navy's emphasis on heavy but slow-firing weapons for its cruisers. ''Hai Yung'' resembled the British protected cruisers of the and Italian , and may have been modeled on the similar Dutch cruisers.Wright, p. 111 Germany itself would increase the number of similar ships for its own navy starting with the and its faster successors up until

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. In 1906 ''Hai Yung'' was sent on a six-month journey to survey the conditions of overseas Chinese communities in South-East Asia.Wright, p. 123 Much of the navy switched loyalties to the rebellion that overthrew the

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in 1911.. On 24 April 1916, ''Hai Yung'' collided with the Chinese Army transport ship in the

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south of the

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. ''Hsin-Yu'' sank with the loss of about 1,000 lives. ''Hai Yung'' and her

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s survived

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and were obsolete by 1935, when they were discarded.Gray, Randal, ed., ''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921'', Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1985, , p. 396. They all were

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s in the

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on 11 August 1937 during the

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.Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik, ''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905'', New York: Mayflower Books, 1979, , p. 397.

References

Bibliography

* * Wright, R., ''The Chinese Steam Navy, 1862–1945'' (London, 2001) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hai Yung Ships built in Stettin Naval ships of China 1897 ships Cruisers of the Beiyang Fleet Second Sino-Japanese War cruisers of China Maritime incidents in 1916 Maritime incidents in 1937 Cruisers of Imperial China