Japanese gunboat Kotaka

History
Name: Kotaka
Namesake: general term of small accipitridae (example: Eurasian sparrowhawk)[1]
Ordered: fiscal year 1929 [2]
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: 19301944
Struck: 1944
Homeport: Shanghai
Fate: sunk by air raid on 31 May 1944
General characteristics
Type: River gunboat
Displacement:
  • 50 tons standard
  • 60.67 long tons (62 t) standing [4]
Length:
  • 30.5 meters
  • 30 m (98 ft 5 in) lpp [4]
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)).[1][4]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Daiji Katagiri, p. 489
  2. JACAR A09050130100
  3. 1 2 JACAR A09050130100, p. 2021
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 The Maru Special (1981), p. 37
  5. JACAR C05021206200, p. 9
  6. JACAR C05021645000, p. 2, p. 7
  7. "Japanese Gunboats". Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 31 May 2013.

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