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CODE	SIZE		PACKING VOLUME
TB2612P	120L x 25W x 53H (cm)	47.2L x 9.8W x 20.9H (inch)	0.16m³

Product volume: updating

Packing: Product box

(Note: The above prices do not include VAT and shipping costs)

DINGYUAN CLASS IRONCLADS (1881)

Introduction about Gia Nhien Wooden Model Ships

Over 70 years of establishment and development, manufacturing wooden boat models has become a traditional profession of the Vietnamese craft village. Gia Nhien Company is one of the companies exporting handicrafts. Gia Nhien has a wealth of experience in hand-crafting. Currently, our company produces wooden boat models with many diverse models. We check every detail and color thoroughly before reaching the customer.

The wooden model ship is the entrepreneur’s choice. The wooden boat model is a symbol of success.

In feng shui, the boat is considered a symbol of success. The boat will overcome the storms and win in business and commerce. Therefore, the wooden boat model is always a feng-shui item that is very popular among business people and traders around the world.

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DINGYUAN CLASS IRONCLADS (1881)

Boat specifications:

CODE	SIZE		Packing Volume
TB2612P	120L x 25W x 53H (cm)	47.2L x 9.8W x 20.9H (inch)	0.16m³

(Note: The above prices do not include VAT and shipping costs)

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HISTORY

The DINGYUAN CLASS consisted of a pair of ironclad warships—Dingyuan and Zhenyuan—built for the Imperial Chinese Navy in the 1880s. They were the first ships of that size to be built for the Chinese Navy, having been constructed by Stettiner Vulcan AG in Germany.

Naval conflicts with Western powers earlier in the 19th century such as the First and Second Opium Wars, during which European warships decisively defeated China’s traditional junk fleets, prompted a major rearmament program that began in the 1880s under the Viceroy of Zhili province, Li Hongzhang. Advisers from the British Royal Navy assisted the program, and the first group of ships—several ironclad gunboats and two small cruisers—were bought from British shipyards. Following a dispute with Japan over the island of Formosa, the Chinese Navy decided to buy large ironclad battleships to match the Imperial Japanese Navy ironclads of the Fusō and Kongō classes then under construction. Britain was unwilling to sell China warships of this size for fear of offending the Russian Empire, despite having sold Japan similar vessels, so Li turned to German shipyards.

The German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) was completing the four Sachsen-class ironclads, and offered to sell China ships built to a modified design. Li wanted to buy up to 12 large ironclads, but tight finances prevented an order of three ships, of which the Jiyuan was reduced in size to that of a protected cruiser. Rather than mounting the main guns in a pair of large, open barbettes as in the Sachsen class, the new design placed four guns in two rotating barbettes towards the front of each ship. The two ships of the class, Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, were built at a cost of around 6.2 million German gold marks, the equivalent of around 1 million Chinese silver taels.

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