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MANCHURIAN NAVY (MANCHUKUO)

COASTAL FORCES

WEI MING river armoured motor gunboats (1935)

Names

微明 [Wei Ming]

孝蔣 [Hsiao Chiang]

纏綿 [Chin Min]

金昌 [Chin Chang]

Builders

Kawasaki, Harbin: Wei Ming, Hsiao Chiang, Chin Min, Chin Chang

Commissioned

1935: Wei Ming, Hsiao Chiang, Chin Min, Chin Chang

Losses

Wei Ming (10.8.1945), Hsiao Chiang (22.8.1945 Soviet ΑΚ-128 [BK-128]), Chin Min (22.8.1945 Soviet ΑΚ-129 [BK-129]), Chin Chang (22.8.1945 Soviet ΑΚ-130 [BK-130])

Transfers

none

Discarding

none

  

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement full, t

30

Length, m

 

Breadth, m

 

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

 

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

 
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 37/27 Maxim, 3 x 1 - 7.7/80

Complement

 

Project history: Small fast armoured motor gunboats, built by Kawasaki in Harbin. They had also Japanese names, however only two of them, Kosatura and Siraume were known.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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