| Name: | HAI CHI |
| Type: | Cruiser |
| Keel: | 11/11/1896 |
| Launched: | 24/01/1898 |
| Completed: | 10/05/1899 |
| Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 667 |
| Dimensions: | 4515disp, 396.0 x 46.5 x 16.75(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 4 x VT4cyl (41, 62 & 68, 68 x 36ins), 10000ihp |
| Engines by: | Humphrys, Tennant & Co, Deptford |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 24.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 2 x 1 x 8.0ins, 10 x 1 x 4.7ins, 12 x 1 x 3pdr QF, 4 x 1 x 37mm QF guns; |
| 1 x 18.0ins torpedo (bow), 4 x 18.0ins torpedoes (broadside) | |
| History: | |
| 10/05/1899 | Government of China |
| 08/1937 | Sank |
| Comments: | 08/1937: Scuttled along with 39 other ships in an attempt to block the |
| Yangtse River at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese war |
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