Postwar Development
The loss of Yuyuan and Chengqing in February 1885 eroded the Nanyang Fleet's advantage over the Northern Seas Fleet (Beiyang Fleet). During the following decade the Nanyang fleet gradually lost its primacy, as Li Hongzhang invested heavily in the Beiyang Fleet. By 1894, on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, the Beiyang Fleet had a comfortable superiority over the Nanyang Fleet both in numbers of ships and quality.
Nevertheless, the Nanyang fleet continued to acquire new ships after the Sino-French War, some of reasonable quality. The first of the new ships was the steel cruiser Baomin, completed at the Kiangnan Arsenal in 1885. The next additions were the composite cruisers Jingqing and Huantai, both products of the Foochow Navy Yard (1886 and 1887).
Table 2: Additions to the Nanyang fleet, 1885–94
| Name (pinyin) | Name (Wade Giles) |
Characters | Description | Construction | Specifications |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baomin | Pao-min | 保民 | steel cruiser | 1885, Kiangnan Dockyard | 1,477 tons, 16 knots, two 200-lb and six 70-lb guns |
| Jingqing | Ching-ch'ing | 靖清 | composite cruiser | 1886, Foochow Navy Yard | 1,477 tons, 15 knots, two 15-cm and five 12-cm Krupp cannon |
| Huantai | Huan-t'ai | 寰泰 | composite cruiser | 1887, Foochow Navy Yard | 1,477 tons, 15 knots, two 15-cm and five 12-cm Krupp cannon |
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