二次世界大戰資料庫 (WW2DB)

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.

Protected Cruiser Hairong 互動地圖

Photographs

Hairong Operational Timeline