| Name: | HAI TIEN |
| Type: | Cruiser |
| Keel: | 16/02/1897 |
| Launched: | 25/11/1897 |
| Completed: | 28/03/1899 |
| Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co |
| Yard: | Elswick |
| Yard Number: | 668 |
| 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, Deptford |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 22.6knots |
| 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: | |
| 28/03/1899 | Government of China |
| 04/1904 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | 04/1904: Wrecked off Eagle Point, 60 miles from Shanghai |
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