r {_Ting-yuen_ |} {| 6 | -- | 12 {| armour belt. Four 12-inch guns
m { | | | | {| on each ship, mounted in pairs
o { | | | | {| in turrets with 12-inch armour.
u { | | | | |
r {_Lai-yuen_ |}2850{| 4 | -- | 8 {|Armoured cruisers, 9 1/2-inch
e {_King-yuen_ |} {| 4 | -- | 8 {| armour belt. 8-inch armour on
d { | | | | {| barbettes forward.
{_Ping-yuen_ | 2850 | 3 | -- | 8 |Armoured cruiser, 8-inch armour
| | | | | belt; 5 inches on barbette.
U | | | | |
n {_Tsi-yuen_ | 2355 | 3 | -- | 10 |
a {_Ching-yuen_ |}2300{| 5 | -- | 16 {|Quickest ships in the fleet:
r {_Chi-yuen_ |} {| 5 | -- | 16 {| speed 18 knots.
m { | | | | |
o {_Yang-wei_ |}1350{| 6 | -- | 7 |
u {_Chao-yung_ |} {| 6 | -- | 7 |
r {_Kwang-chia_ | 1300 | 7 | -- | 8 |
e {_Kwang-ping_ | 1030 | -- | 3 | 8 |
d { | | | | |
| | | | |
4 torpedo-boats | | | | |
and 3 small | | | | |
gunboats. | | | | |
| |----|-----|-----|
| | 55 | 3 | 120 |
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The Chinese fleet had more armour protection. The two coast-defence
battleships were heavily armoured, and there were three other less
completely protected ironclads, although seven other ships had no armour
whatever. In the Japanese fleet the only armoured vessels were the two old
ironclads, belonging to an obsolete type, and the armour-belted "Chiyoda."
The real fighting force of the fleet was made up of the seven new protected
cruisers. Some of these had armour on the barbettes in which their long
bow-guns were mounted, but their "protection" consisted in a deck plated
with steel covering the "vitals" of the ship, boilers, engines, and
magazines, all placed as low as possible in the hull. There was some
further protection afforded by the coal-bunkers placed along the water-line
amidships. The theory of the protected cruiser was that everything below
the water-line was safeguarded by this armoured deck, and as the over-water
portion of the ship was further