Category:Pu An (ship, 1896)

Ship[edit]

• Type: Passenger/cargo
• Built by: Lloyd Austria co, Trieste
• Yard No: 48
• Keel: 2.12.95
• Launch Date: 24.8.94
• Date of completion: 19.12.94
• LPP: 114.5 m
• Beam: 13.4 m
• GRT: 4,284
• DWT: 4318
• 6500 hps
• Speed: 15 knts

History[edit]

• 1893 Named: BOHEMIA Flag: Austria
• 1894 Bought by China Renamed: HWAH PING
• 1920 Registered, value £115,688
• 1930 Renamed: POO AN
• 1936 Renamed: POYANG
• 1940 Renamed: HAYO

Also found: Chartered to several shipping companies, later enlisted as naval transport ship, renamed Pu An (普安), displacement 4500 tons, two 6.3 inch, and 4 5.9 inch guns, complement 237. Decommissioned in 1934, scuttled in Huang Pu River, Shanghai, on Aug 14 1937 as blockade ship