HMS Taku (1900) was a captured
destroyer. Originally built by
Schichau at
Elbing for the Chinese Navy in 1898, she displaced 305 tons, had a speed of 32
knots (59 km/h), and was armed with six 3-pounder guns and two 14 in (356 mm)
torpedo tubes and had 58 crew. She was one of four captured from the Chinese during the
Boxer Rebellion in 1900. The four ships were shared between the navies of the UK,
France,
Imperial Germany and
Imperial Russia and until the Russian one was renamed Lieutenant Burakov each was named Taku (see
French Takou,
German Taku,
Russian Taku). She displaced 305 tons, was 194 feet long and her 6,000
hp (4,474 kW) produced 32 knots courtesy of her Schichau boilers. The British Taku was sold in
Hong Kong in 1916.
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HMS Taku (1900) was a captured
destroyer. Originally built by
Schichau at
Elbing for the Chinese Navy in 1898, she displaced 305 tons, had a speed of 32
knots (59 km/h), and was armed with six 3-pounder guns and two 14 in (356 mm)
torpedo tubes and had 58 crew. She was one of four captured from the Chinese during the
Boxer Rebellion in 1900. The four ships were shared between the navies of the UK,
France,
Imperial Germany and
Imperial Russia and until the Russian one was renamed Lieutenant Burakov each was named Taku (see
French Takou,
German Taku,
Russian Taku). She displaced 305 tons, was 194 feet long and her 6,000
hp (4,474 kW) produced 32 knots courtesy of her Schichau boilers. The British Taku was sold in
Hong Kong in 1916.
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.