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KOTAKA small river gunboat (1930)

Kotaka 1944

Names

小鷹 [Kotaka]

Builders

Mitsui, Tamano: Kotaka

Commissioned

1/1930: Kotaka

Losses

Kotaka (31.5.1944)

Transfers

none

Discarding none

 

Displacement standard, t

50

Displacement full, t

63

Length, m

30.0 pp 30.5 oa

Breadth, m

4.90

Draught, m

0.64

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.

540

Max speed, kts

15.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

5 x 1 - 7.7/80

Complement

 

Project history: Built under the 1927 programme for service on the Upper Yangtze. She had very shallow draught and was carried to the Yangtze on board of cargo vessel.

Modernizations: 1942 - 1943: - 2 x 1 - 7.7/80

Naval service:  Kotaka served as passenger vessel about 1942, she was sunk 31.5.1944 on Yangtze by Chinese aircraft.

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