Pingyuan (coastal battleship)
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| Career |  /  |
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| Builder: | Foochow(Mawei) Navy Yards, China |
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| Laid down | 1 January 1883 |
| Launched: | 1888 |
| Completed: | 1890 in Beiyang fleet; captured by Japan 1895 |
| Fate: | Mined off Pigeon Bay (Piegen Bay) West of Port Arthur, 18 September 1904 |
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| Displacement: | 2,150 |
| Length: | 60.96 meters at waterline |
| Beam: | 12.192 meters |
| Draught: | 4.19 meters |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft reciprocating triple expansion steam engine, 2 boilers; 2 400 HP |
| Speed: | 10.5 knots |
| Fuel: | 350 tons coal |
| Complement: | 202 |
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The Pingyuan (chinese:平远) was a Chinese armored coastal warship built by the Mawei Navy Yard, its model is of the French Acheron Class. The Pingyuan was firstly named Longwei(chinese:龙威), and was the first Chinese-built ironclad, some of its components were imported from abroad. The Pingyuan was part of the Beiyang Fleet.
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The Pingyuan fought in the Battle of the Yalu River, damaging the Japanese flag ship Matsushima and was later captured in the siege of Weihaiwei. She was then commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy, firstly as the Ping Yuen Go and later the Heien
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