说到德国为清朝建造的舰艇,老佛爷的《BRITISH DESTROYERS:From Earliest Days to theSecond World War》有一段英国的评测(指文的中文版有微妙的省略),至于将其看作坑人还是为了高速的妥协,就各自理解了:
During the Boxer Rebellion, the Royal Navy captured one of the Chinese Schichau boats.Renamed HMS Taku, she could be examined to test the claims made two years earlier. In September 1900, the DNC asked for detailed particulars, including a body plan. She was far more lightly loaded than a British destroyer, with six 47mm (1.9in) Hotchkiss QF guns and two 14in torpedo tubes. Her hull was shallower than that of a comparable British ship, hence weaker. It also appeared that she was more lightly built than a British destroyer. Accommodation for officers was equal to that in British destroyers, but the seamen’s mess deck was so crowded that five fewer seamen had to be carried than in a British ship. The cooking galley on deck was very inconvenient in a seaway. Metacentric height compared well with British practice, but the range of stability was considerably poorer, and the maximum righting arm was at a smaller angle. In September 1904, her CO stated that at some time her hull had clearly been strained, and that even though defects had been made good, she was not fit for continuous steaming at high speed. He did not want to steam her continuously at more than twenty- four knots even in smooth water. In October, her CO reported that since going to sea the upper deck forward of her engine room had buckled considerably, particularly just abaft her funnels; the deck of the conning tower and the forward deck were distorted; the bulkheads of the forward and middle stokeholds were bulged (bunker door guides had to be eased back to be removed, the doors no longer being watertight), and rivets of the stay supporting the conning towers had torn the deck, causing leaks. Tank tests showed that the Taku hull form was not as well adapted to high speed as that of a British thirty-knotter. It is not clear how well Taku performed on British trials.