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