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[Zophiel]

I've been somewhat curious about a Chinese fleet (for longer than I've known about Aeronef, in fact). Most of the battleships and cruisers of the Beiyang Fleet were either of British or German manufacture. They also had gunboats and torpedo boats.

Imperial corruption combined with significant lack in both military organization and training contributed to Chinese naval defeats. Related factors ultimately led to the formation of the Eight-Nation Alliance (The Big Seven and Italy).

If there was a strong leader for the Chinese military and if Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi hadn't used the money set aside for the construction of ten new warships to celebrate her own 60th birthday — what might have happened?…

The ships in the fleet at the time of the first Sino-Japanese War included: Tsi Yuen, Kuang Chia, Chih Yuen, King Yuen, Ting Yuen, Chen Yuen, Lai Yuen, Ching Yuen, Chao Yung, Yang Wei, Kuang Ping, and Ping Yuen.

These ships were probably (in Aeronef terms) quite a bit like the German Moltke class Battlecruiser and the British Rawalpindi Class Colonial Cruiser. In many ways, they'd look a lot like a Turkish fleet, I suppose.

Thoughts?
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[Reaver Steve]

seen these ?

http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Frames/Galleries/VAN-4.html

steve
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