Fujian Fleet
Nine of the eleven vessels of the Fujian Fleet were destroyed in less than an hour during the Battle of Fuzhou (23 August 1884). The Chinese flagship "Yangwu" was successfully attacked with a spar torpedo and grounded. The despatch vessel "Fuxing" was also attacked, less successfully, with spar torpedoes, and was finally carried by boarding. She had already been set alight by French shellfire, and was eventually abandoned by the French prize crew and sank in the middle of the Min River. "Zhenwei" was blown up by a single shell from the ironclad "Triomphante", which joined the French squadron minutes before the battle began. "Chenhang", "Yongbao", "Feiyun", "Ji'an", "Fusheng" and "Jiansheng" were either sunk or set alight by shellfire from the cruisers "Duguay-Trouin", "Villars" and "d'Estaing". Only "Fupo" and "Yixin" survived the battle without serious damage, by escaping upriver before the French ships had a chance to engage them.