Dingyuan

Dingyuan (Traditional Chinese: 定遠; Simplified Chinese: 定远; pinyin: Dìngyǔan) was a Chinese battleship and the flagship of the Imperial Beiyang Fleet; her name was traditionally spelled Ting Yuen or Ting Yuan in older books. Her sister ship was the Zhenyuan. After negotiations with both British and German governments, the Qing Dynasty in 1881 handed the contract to build the advanced warship to Germany's Stettiner Maschinenbau AG Vulcan shipyard, at a cost of 1.7 million taels of silver (6.2 million German Goldmark). The hull was laid down on 31 March, 1881 and she was launched on 28 December, 1881 and sea trials commenced on 2 May 1883. Area Code: 550