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TATARA river gunboat (1927/1941)

Tatara

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
多々良 [Tatara] (ex-Wake, ex-Guam)     Kiangnan Dock, Shanghai, China   28.5.1927 12/1927 // 12.1941 surrendered 8.1945, to China 1946 (太原 [Tai Yuan])

 

Displacement standard, t

370

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

45.7 wl 48.6 oa

Breadth, m

8.25

Draught, m

1.60

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

1950

Max speed, kts

12.5

Fuel, t

oil 75

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 3.5.6, 10 x 1 - 7.7/80

Complement

70

Project history: USN river gunboat Wake was captured in Shanghai 8.12.1941 by IJN and 15.12.1941 entered service in IJN as Tatara.

Modernizations: 1944 - 1945: - 10 x 1 - 7.7/80; + 13 - 25/60 96-shiki

1945: disarmed

Naval service: In 1945 China received Tatara at Shanghai.

Tatara

 

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