Japanese gunboat Atami

Atami in 1929
History
Empire of Japan
Name	Atami
Ordered	1927 Fiscal Year
Builder	Mitsui Shipyards, Tama
Laid down	6 November 1928
Launched	30 March 1929
Completed	30 June 1929
Decommissioned	30 September 1945
Stricken	30 September 1945
Republic of China
Name	Yong Ping
Acquired	30 September 1945
Fate	captured by PRC in Chinese Civil War
China
Name	Wu Jiang
Acquired	30 November 1949
Fate	Scrapped in 1960s
General characteristics
Class and type	Atami-class gunboat
Displacement	249 tons
Length	150 ft 7 in (45.90 m) overall
Beam	17.4 ft 10 in (5.56 m)
Draught	3.7 ft (1.1 m)
Propulsion	Geared turbines 2 × shafts 2 × boilers 1,300 hp (970 kW)
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Range	1,000 nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	54
Armament	1 × 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval gun 5 × Lewis guns 1 × Hotchkiss M1929 machine gun AA (installed in 1941)

Atami (熱海) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War. After World War II, the ship entered service with the Republic of China Navy as Yong Ping (永平), but was captured by the Chinese communists at the end of Chinese Civil War, and entered People's Liberation Army Navy as Wu Jiang (乌江). The ship was finally scrapped in the 1960s.

Sources

• Japanese gunboats (with photos) (in Japanese)
• Vessels of the IJN
• Monograph 144 Chapter II