Chinese corvette Yangwu
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Yangwu was a wooden corvette built for the Imperial Chinese Navy. She was built in 1872 at the Foochow Arsenal, and was the largest ship built there from the shipbuilding programme of 1868–75. During
Yangwu (pictured left) with the Chinese gunboat Fuxing at anchor, the night before the Battle of Fuzhou.
Chinese sailors on the deck of Yangwu
The sunken Yangwu after the Battle of Foochow
The 70-pounder Whitworth naval gun was designed by Joseph Whitworth during the 1860s. It was a rifled muzzle loader and used his hexagonal, rifled-bore design.
Chinese corvette Yangwu
…and a retractable funnel. Her engines produced a cruising speed of 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph). Yangwu was armed with a battery of four 5-inch (130 mm) 70-pounder guns on each side, and two further mounted as chase guns at the bow and stern. These were each built by the British firm Armstrong's. A further 6.5-inch…
Gun from Princess Royal, in Willard Park at the Washington Navy Yard. Notice the hexagonal bore.
On a coastal carriage in Rio de Janeiro