Kwangtung (boat)

Kwangtung

Lay-Osborn Flotilla
Name	Kwangtung (廣東かんとん) Pai Yueh (百ひゃく粵)
Namesake	Guangdong Baiyue
Builder	Laird Brothers Limited
Yard number	297
Launched	4 March 1863
Out of service	1863
Fate	Sold
General characteristics
Class and type	Dispatch boat
Displacement	552 long tons (561 t)
Tons burthen	552 bm
Length	185 ft 0 in (56.38 m)
Beam	24 ft 0 in (7.31 m)
Draught	12 ft 10 in (3.9 m)
Installed power	150 nhp 560 hp (420 kW)
Propulsion	Side-wheel

Kwangtung (Chinese: 廣東かんとん; pinyin: Guǎngdōng; lit. 'Guangdong') was a British-made dispatch boat launched in 1863.

History

Kwangtung was purchased by Horatio Nelson Lay, Inspector General of the Qing Dynasty Chinese Maritime Customs Service in May 1863 as part of an effort to bolster the Qing Dynasty naval force in response to the ongoing Taiping Rebellion. Thereafter she became part of the Lay-Osborn Flotilla commanded by Sherard Osborn. She was put under the command of Lieut. William Allen Young. Upon her arrival in China, the Qing government ordered the ship to be renamed as Pai Yueh (Chinese: 百ひゃく粵; pinyin: Bǎiyuè; lit. 'Baiyue').

Disagreements between the Qing government and Lay over the command and composition of the Lay-Osborn Flotilla led to its disbandment in 1863, and Kwangtung was taken to Bombay. There, along with Thule, Kwangtung was sold to the Indian government for a total of £8,142.

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