Hairong
| Country | China |
| Ship Class | Hairong-class Protected Cruiser |
| Builder | Aktien-Gesellschaft Vulcan Stettin, Germany |
| Launched | 15 Sep 1897 |
| Sunk | 25 Aug 1937 |
| Displacement | 2,680 tons standard; 2,950 tons full |
| Length | 328 feet |
| Beam | 41 feet |
| Draft | 19 feet |
| Machinery | Four coal boilers, two turbines, two shafts |
| Bunkerage | 200-580 tons of coal |
| Power Output | 7,500 SHP |
| Speed | 19 knots |
| Crew | 244 |
| Armament | 3x150mm Krupp QF guns, 8x105mm Krupp QF guns, 1x60mm Krupp gun, 6x37mm Hotchkiss guns, 6x8mm Maxim machine guns, 3x360mm torpedo tubes |
| Armor | 25-70mm deck, 51mm turret shields, 38mm conning tower |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
ww2dbaseHairong (romanized via the Postal Map System as Hai Yung) was the lead ship of her class of protected cruisers built in Germany for the Chinese Navy at the cost of £163,000. In 1906, she embarked on a six-month tour in Southeast Asia visiting Chinese communities. In 1911, she was initially used to bombard revolutionary forces at Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, but would switch sides in Nov. Although she went through modernization in 1930, which added an anti-aircraft gun, by the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War began in 1937 she was obsolete, thus when the need rose to block the Yangtze River from Japanese use, Hairong became one of the older ships scuttled in the middle of the river at Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China for this purpose.
ww2dbaseSource: Wikipedia
Last Major Revision: Aug 2012
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Hairong Operational Timeline
| 15 Sep 1897 | Hairong was launched by AG Vulcan in Germany. |
| 27 Jul 1898 | Hairong arrived at Tianjin, China. |
| 25 Aug 1937 | Chinese light cruisers Haiqi, Hairong, Haichen, and Haichou were sunk at the mouth of the Yangtze River at Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China, adding more obstacles to prevent Japanese navigation. |
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