Chinese corvette Yangwu

Yangwu (pictured left) with the Chinese gunboat Fuxing at anchor, the night before the Battle of Fuzhou.
History
Imperial China
Name	Yangwu (揚武)
Namesake	Yangwu
Builder	Foochow Arsenal
Launched	April 23, 1872
Fate	Sunk August 23, 1884
General characteristics
Type	Corvette
Displacement	1,393 long tons (1,415 t)
Length	190 feet 2 inches (57.96 m)
Beam	36 feet (11 m)
Draught	16 feet 5 inches (5.00 m)
Installed power	250 hp (190 kW) 4 boilers
Propulsion	Steam engine
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement	270
Armament	8 × 70-pounder guns 2 × 24-pounder long guns 1 × 150-pounder gun

Yangwu (Chinese: 揚武; pinyin: Yangwu; Wade–Giles: Yang-wu or Yang Woo) 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 her early career, she was used as a training ship and under the command of English captains. She later saw action in the Battle of Fuzhou in 1884, the opening action of the Sino-French War, where she acted as the flagship of the Fujian Fleet. Shortly after the start of the battle, she was damaged by a spar torpedo, causing a large explosion and the loss of the majority of her crew; she was sunk shortly afterwards by enemy fire.