Originally commissioned as the Zhenyuan was a German-built Chinese Beiyang Fleet turret ship of the 19th century. Her sister ship was the Dingyuan. Built with 14-inch (360 mm) thick armour and modern Krupp guns, they were superior to any in the Imperial Japanese Navy at the time.
Captured by the Japanese after the Battle of Weihaiwei on 17 February 1895, Zhenyuan was taken as a prize of war. Rebuilt in 1896/7 and commissioned under the name Chin'en (the Japanese rendition of the ship's original Chinese name), Zhenyuan was the only battleship in the Imperial Japanese Navy until the commissioning of the Fuji. She served during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 in escorting Japanese troopships to the Asian mainland.
In 1901, she was renovated by replacement of her two old 6-inch (150 mm) Krupp guns by four rapid-fire 6-inch Armstrong cannon. One gun remained in a small nose gun turret; however, her rear turret was removed, with the stern gun mounted behind a gun shield. The remaining 6-inch guns were retained in the massive turret behind the bridge. She also received two 57-millimetre (2.2 in), eight 47-millimetre (1.9 in) and two 37-millimetre (1.5 in) rapid-fire guns, and improvements to her boilers brought her speed up to 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph). However, on 27 May 1903 during a training exercise, an explosion in one of her main guns killed her gun crew of 12 crewmen.
The file contains all the sounds and pcx files. Model is not my own creation. Wyrmshadow provided the animation files and Ares de Borg did the sounds. I merely put the pieces together and cleaned up the model for CivIII and added some what if pieces. A big thanks to everyone that helped out!
Captured by the Japanese after the Battle of Weihaiwei on 17 February 1895, Zhenyuan was taken as a prize of war. Rebuilt in 1896/7 and commissioned under the name Chin'en (the Japanese rendition of the ship's original Chinese name), Zhenyuan was the only battleship in the Imperial Japanese Navy until the commissioning of the Fuji. She served during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 in escorting Japanese troopships to the Asian mainland.
In 1901, she was renovated by replacement of her two old 6-inch (150 mm) Krupp guns by four rapid-fire 6-inch Armstrong cannon. One gun remained in a small nose gun turret; however, her rear turret was removed, with the stern gun mounted behind a gun shield. The remaining 6-inch guns were retained in the massive turret behind the bridge. She also received two 57-millimetre (2.2 in), eight 47-millimetre (1.9 in) and two 37-millimetre (1.5 in) rapid-fire guns, and improvements to her boilers brought her speed up to 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph). However, on 27 May 1903 during a training exercise, an explosion in one of her main guns killed her gun crew of 12 crewmen.
The file contains all the sounds and pcx files. Model is not my own creation. Wyrmshadow provided the animation files and Ares de Borg did the sounds. I merely put the pieces together and cleaned up the model for CivIII and added some what if pieces. A big thanks to everyone that helped out!
