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ATADA training gunboat (1930/1938)

Atada 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
阿多田 [Atada] (ex-逸仙 [Yat Sen])     Kiangan Dock, China 1.1930 12.11.1930 1930 // 5.1938 captured 8.1945, to China 8.1946 (一行 [I Hsien])

 

Displacement normal, t

1520

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

78.2 pp 82.3 oa

Breadth, m

10.5

Draught, m

3.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 3 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

4000

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, t

coal 280
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

3 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76

Complement

173

Project history: Former Chinese gunboat Yat Sen, capsized and sunk 25.9.1937 after bombing by Japanese aircraft. In the end of the same year she was salvaged by Japanese and after repair entered service in May, 1938 under name Atada as training ship for Naval Academy. She received new tripod mast, new bridge and cadet accomodation under raised quarterdeck.

Modernizations: 1940s, presumably: + radar

Naval service: In the end of war she was converted to AA floating battery.

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