Coal fuelled reciprocating steam machinery. Gross tonnage 3.841 tons, under deck 3.539 tons, net tonage 2.371 tons and as dimension 370 x 51 x 22.7 x 20 (loaded). Speed 9 knots. Also used as landing boat transport. Laid down as cargo annex passenger ship by William Gray&Co., Hartlepool, England for F.C. Svorono& di Pollone, launched on 14 April 1914, baptized Druzhba, completed in June 1914 was she registered in Russia, 1920 United Kingdom-flagged and owned, purchased by the Chinese government on 11 December 1931 was she commissioned as the patrol boat Chi Fu Hsing, captured by Japanese forces at Tsuinan/Cuinan in November 1937 and renamed Hakusa, converted by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shipyard into a surveying vessel staring on 28 January 1938 and registered on 20 February 1938, classified as special repair ship on 1 May 1944, the same month were 1-7.7mm and 2-13.2mm guns added to her armament and finally sunk by the American submarine USS Cobia (SS-245 off Cappe Camau, southern Indochina on 8 June 1945. Stricken from the navy list on 3 May 1947.
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