These cruisers were fast (25 knots) and heavily armed, but were not adopted by the Royal Navy because the Admiralty considered them to be "weak in structure".
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Another pair of protected cruisers, Chingyuan 靖遠 and Zhiyuan 致遠, were built by Armstrong Whitworth in 1887 at its new Elswick yard.
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It states something of his personality to note that he ordered his flagship, the lightly armed passenger liner Saikyo to charge the Chinese fleet at the Battle of the Yalu River.
Chinese cruiser Laiyuan (來遠), armoured cruiser of the Beiyang Fleet during the Qing Dynasty
Chinese cruiser Yangwei, a late Qing-dynasty warship with the Beiyang Fleet