Japanese gunboat Kotaka
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Name | Kotaka |
Namesake | general term of small accipitridae (example: Eurasian sparrowhawk)[2] |
Ordered | fiscal year 1929 [1] |
Builder | Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Tama shipyard |
Cost | 246,561 JPY [3] |
Laid down | 2 September 1929 |
Launched | 18 January 1930 |
Completed | 1 November 1930 |
Commissioned | 1930–1944 |
Stricken | 1944 |
Homeport | Shanghai |
Fate | sunk by air raid on 31 May 1944 |
General characteristics | |
Type | River gunboat |
Displacement |
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Beam | 4.90 m (16 ft 1 in) [5] |
Draught | 0.64 m (2 ft 1 in) [4] |
Propulsion | 2 × Niigata Iron Works diesels, 540 bhp [4] |
Speed | 15.5 knots (17.8 mph; 28.7 km/h) |
Range | 1,000 nmi (1,900 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) [3] |
Armament | 3 × Type 92 7.7 mm machine guns [4][6] 1942: Reduced to 2 × Type 92 7.7 mm machine guns |
Kotaka (小鷹) 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. Participated in the Battle of Wuhan, June-Sept., 1938. Participated in Battle of Madang and Battle of Jiujiang, June, 1938. Nanchang Campaign: February–May, 1939. 1942: In service as passenger ship. Sunk May 31, 1944 on the Yangtze River while serving as a communications ship.[7] The IJN official designation was 60-ton traffic ship (Motored river exclusive-Special type) (六拾瓲交通船 (内火式河用特型),, 60-ton kōtsūsen (Uchibishiki kawayou-Tokugata)).[2][4]
Footnotes
Bibliography
- The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No.53, Japanese support vessels, "Ushio Shobō". (Japan), July 1981
- Daiji Katagiri, Ship Name Chronicles of the Imperial Japanese Navy Combined Fleet, Kōjinsha (Japan), June 1988, ISBN 4-7698-0386-9
- "Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR)"., National Archives of Japan
- Reference code: A09050130100, Explanatory document on addition of fiscal 1929 estimated expense in 56th Diet
- Reference code: C05021206200, Inquiry, Response, Notification (6)
- Reference code: C05022903500, Military Affairs 1, No. 88 June 21, 1933, Traffic ship, Kotaka
- Reference code: C05021645000, No. 2026 June 15, 1931 Sasebo Navy Arsenal No.10-26, Establishing part of equipment for traffic ship Kotaka
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