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MANCHURIAN NAVY (MANCHUKUO)

COASTAL FORCES

TA TUNG river armoured motor gunboats (1933)

Names

大同 [Ta Tung]

李敏 [Li Min]

Builders

Mitsubishi, Kobe or Yokohama, Japan: Ta Tung, Li Min

Commissioned

1933: Ta Tung, Li Min

Losses

Ta Tung (22.8.1945 Soviet ΡΚ-265 [SK-265]), Li Min (22.8.1945 Soviet ΡΚ-266 [SK-266])

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

  

Displacement standard, t

50

Displacement full, t

56

Length, m

30.5

Breadth, m

4.88

Draught, m

0.76

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.

240

Max speed, kts

10.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 3 x 1 - 7.7/80

Complement

20

Project history: Built by Mitsibishi in Kobe or Yokohama, launched 27.6.1933 and assembled by Kawasaki in Harbin the same year. Japanese names were Daido and Rinni.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Ta Tung 1936

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