Pingyuan 平遠

Captured

Qing Chinese Navy, then Imperial Japanese Navy

Type	Armoured cruiser
War	First Sino-Japanese War
Main guns	1 × 10″ gun

Service

1890–1895	Pingyuan 平遠	China
from 1895	Heien Captured at Weihaiwei	Japan

Chinese-built armoured cruiser. Captured at Weihaiwei and served Japan as Heien.

Japanese armoured gunboat Heien, former Chinese Ping Yuen. Mikasa Memorial Museum Photo: The original uploader was SFX 1 at English Wikipedia., Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

1 × 260 mm (10 in) gun
2 × 150 mm (6 in) guns
2 × 57 mm (2 in) machine guns
2 × 47 mm (2 in) machine guns
4 × 37.5 mm (1 in) machine guns
3 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes

Armour

Belt: 203 mm (8 in)
Deck: 50 mm (2 in)
Turret: 203 mm (8 in)
Conning tower: 127 mm (5 in)

Builder	Foochow Arsenal, Mawei, China
Launched	29 January 1888
Displacement	2,150 long tons (2,185 t)
Length	60.96 m (200 ft) w/l
Speed	10.5 knots (12.1 mph; 19.4 km/h)
Complement	202

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

29 January 1888

Battle of the Yalu River

Survived

17 September 1894

Joined from the Yalu anchorage

Battle of Weihaiwei

Captured

20 January – 12 February 1895

Renamed IJN Heien

Japan

17 February 1895 · Captured at Weihaiwei

Fate

Captured

Mined off Pigeon Bay (Piegen Bay) west of Port Arthur, 18 September 1904