Kwangtung (boat)

Kwangtung (Chinese: 廣東; pinyin: Guǎngdōng; lit. 'Guangdong') was a British-made dispatch boat launched in 1863.

Kwangtung
Lay-Osborn Flotilla
Name
  • Kwangtung (廣東)
  • Pai Yueh (百粵)
Namesake
BuilderLaird Brothers Limited
Yard number297
Launched4 March 1863
Out of service1863
FateSold
General characteristics
Class and typeDispatch boat
Displacement552 long tons (561 t)
Tons burthen552 bm
Length185 ft 0 in (56.38 m)
Beam24 ft 0 in (7.31 m)
Draught12 ft 10 in (3.9 m)
Installed power
  • 150 nhp
  • 560 hp (420 kW)
PropulsionSide-wheel

History

Kwangtung was purchased by Horatio Nelson Lay, Inspector General of the Qing Dynasty Chinese Maritime Customs Service in May 1863 as part of an effort to bolster the Qing Dynasty naval force in response to the ongoing Taiping Rebellion.[1][2] Thereafter she became part of the Lay-Osborn Flotilla commanded by Sherard Osborn.[3] She was put under the command of Lieut. William Allen Young.[4] Upon her arrival in China, the Qing government ordered the ship to be renamed as Pai Yueh (Chinese: 百粵; pinyin: Bǎiyuè; lit. 'Baiyue').[5][6]

Disagreements between the Qing government and Lay over the command and composition of the Lay-Osborn Flotilla led to its disbandment in 1863, and Kwangtung was taken to Bombay.[7] There, along with Thule, Kwangtung was sold to the Indian government for a total of £8,142.[5][6]

Citations
  1. Chen 2013, p. 7.
  2. Wright 2000, p. 16.
  3. Chen 2013, p. 10.
  4. Clowes 1903.
  5. Chen 2013, p. 12.
  6. Chen 2002, p. 142.
  7. Wright 2000, p. 19.

References
  • Chen, Zhenshou (2002). Túshuōzhōngguóhǎijūnshǐ: Gǔdài-1955 图说中国海军史: 古代-1955 [A Pictorial History of the Chinese Navy: Antiquity-1955]. Fujian Education Publishing House. ISBN 978-7-5334-3536-3. Archived from the original on 2019-01-12. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  • Chen, Yue (2013). Zhōngguójūnjiàntúzhì 1855-1911 中國軍艦圖誌1855-1911 [Album of Chinese Warships 1855-1911] (in Chinese). Hong Kong: The Commercial Press (Hong Kong). ISBN 9789620703614.
  • Clowes, Sir William Laird (1903). The Royal Navy a History from earliest times to the death of Queen Victoria: Volume 7. London, England: Sampson Low Marston and Company. pp. 138–150.
  • Wright, Richard (2000). The Chinese Steam Navy, 1862-1945. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 9781861761446.
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