Japanese gunboat Atami
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.
 IJN gunboat Atami 1929 | |
| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Atami |
| Succeeded by: | Fushimi class gunboat |
| Completed: | 2 |
| History | |
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| 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 |
| Out of service: | September 1945 |
| Struck: | 30 September 1945 |
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| Name: | Yong Ping |
| Acquired: | 30 September 1945 |
| Fate: | captured by PRC in Chinese Civil War |
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| Name: | Wu Jiang |
| Acquired: | 30 November 1949 |
| Fate: | scrapped in 1960s |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | 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) |
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| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Range: | 1,000 nautical miles (1,900 km) @ 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 54 |
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