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Japanese gunboat Atami

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Atami in 1929
History
Empire of Japan
NameAtami
Ordered1927 Fiscal Year
BuilderMitsui Shipyards, Tama
Laid down6 November 1928
Launched30 March 1929
Completed30 June 1929
Decommissioned30 September 1945
Stricken30 September 1945
Republic of China
NameYong Ping
Acquired30 September 1945
Fatecaptured by PRC in Chinese Civil War
China
NameWu Jiang
Acquired30 November 1949
FateScrapped in 1960s
General characteristics
Class and typeAtami-class gunboat
Displacement249 tons
Length150 ft 7 in (45.90 m) overall
Beam17.4 ft 10 in (5.56 m)
Draught3.7 ft (1.1 m)
Propulsion
  • Geared turbines
  • 2 × shafts
  • 2 × boilers
  • 1,300 hp (970 kW)
Speed16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Range1,000 nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement54
Armament

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.

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