Chinese cruiser Zhiyuan

Zhiyuan was a protected cruiser built for the Imperial Chinese Navy by Armstrong Whitworth at Elswick, England, one of the two Zhiyuan class cruisers with her sister ship Jingyuan. The Viceroy of Zhili, Li Hongzhang, could not decide between armoured and protected cruisers and ordered two of each type, giving the protected pair to Armstrong Whitworth in October 1885. She was laid down on 20 October 1885, launched on 29 September 1886 and completed on 23 July 1887. A compound-expansion steam engine and four boilers drove two screws for a top speed of 18.5 knots, and her main armament was three 8 inch Krupp guns. She served in the Beiyang Fleet under Captain Deng Shichang and was sunk at the Battle of the Yalu River on 17 September 1894 after he ordered her to ram a Japanese cruiser. Her wreck was found in 2013.