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Name: SEA SERPENT renamed FEI TING
Type: Destroyer
Keel:
Launched: 03/10/1887
Completed: 09/1894
Builder: JS White & Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: East Cowes & Elswick
Yard Number: 746 & 621
Dimensions: 311disp, 200.0 x 23.0 x 6.0(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x VT3cyl (18, 28 & 40 x 18ins), 3000ihp
Engines by: GE Belliss & Co, Birmingham
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 21.5knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 1 x 3.75ins QF, 4 x 1 x 3pdr QF guns, 5 x 14.0ins torpedoes
History:
03/1894 Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd; renamed FEI TING
09/1894 Government of China
No later history known
Comments: Built by White's as a stock boat
21/03/1894: Purchased by Armstrongs, rebuilt & strengthened
23/06/1895: Delivery delayed by the Sino-Japanese war
06/1900: Captured by the joint British, French, German & Russian expedition
08/1902: Returned to the Chinese, but in disrepair
By 1920: Stricken from the Chinese Navy List


Above photo as FEI TING is courtesy of Dennis Maccoy

Above photo as FEI TING is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as FEI TING is courtesy of Photoship