Chinese cruiser Jingyuan (1886)

Jingyuan was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Chinese Navy, built by Armstrong Whitworth at Elswick, England, and the sister ship of Zhiyuan in the two-ship Zhiyuan class. Li Hongzhang ordered her in October 1885 as part of an experiment that placed orders for two armoured and two protected cruisers, and she was laid down on 20 October 1885, launched on 14 December 1886 and completed on 9 July 1887. A compound-expansion steam engine with four boilers drove two screws and gave 6,850 indicated horsepower and 18.5 knots, and she carried three 8 inch Krupp guns. She served in the Beiyang Fleet, survived the Battle of the Yalu River in September 1894 with fire damage, and was sunk at Weihaiwei in February 1895 by a shot from a captured Chinese fort. Admiral Ding Ruchang had a mine detonated aboard her, and she was raised for scrap the next year.