Chinese cruiser Chaoyong

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|Ship name=''Chaoyong'' |Ship ordered=1879 |Ship builder=Charles Mitchell & Company, Newcastle Upon Tyne |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down=15 January 1880 |Ship launched=11 November 1880 |Ship completed=14 July 1881 |Ship commissioned=22 November 1881 |Ship homeport= |Ship fate= Sank, 17 September 1894 |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }}

|Ship displacement= |Ship length= |Ship beam= |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship power= |Ship propulsion=*Reciprocating engine, two shafts *Six boilers |Ship speed= |Ship range= |Ship boats=*2 x Pinnaces |Ship complement=140 |Ship armament=*2 × Armstrong Whitworth cannons *4 × Armstrong Whitworth cannons *2 × twin Armstrong Whitworth 9-pounders *4 × 11 mm Gatling guns *4 × 37 mm Hotchkiss guns *2 × 4-barreled Nordenfelt guns |Ship armour= |Ship notes= }} |} ''Chaoyong'' () was a cruiser built for the Imperial Chinese Navy. She was built by Charles Mitchell & Company in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, from a design by Sir George Wightwick Rendel which had already been used on the Chilean Navy vessel ''Arturo Prat'' (later the Imperial Japanese Navy's ). Two ships were ordered by the Chinese, ''Chaoyong'' and . Both would serve together throughout their careers, assigned to the Beiyang Fleet and based in Taku during the summer, and Chemulpo, Korea, in the winter.

''Chaoyong'' did not see any action during the Sino-French War, but in the First Sino-Japanese War, she was in the Chinese line at the Battle of Yalu River on 17 September 1894. She was one of the early casualties of the battle, being set alight, and sinking after a collision with the Chinese cruiser . Provided by Wikipedia