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Japanese gunboat Kotaka
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| History | |
|---|---|
 Empire of Japan | |
| 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[4] |
| Launched | 4 December 1929[4] |
| Completed | 11 January 1930[4] |
| Stricken | 1944 |
| Homeport | Shanghai |
| Fate | Sunk by air raid on 31 May 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | River gunboat |
| Displacement | |
| Length | |
| Beam | 4.900 m (16 ft 0.9 in) max[7][5] |
| Draught | 0.640 m (2 ft 1.2 in) [6][5] |
| Depth | 1.400 m (4 ft 7.1 in)[5] |
| Propulsion | 2 × Niigata Iron Works diesels, 540 bhp [6] |
| Speed | 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) |
| Range | 1,000 nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) [3] |
| Armament | 3 × Type 92 7.7 mm machine guns [6][8] 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. During World War II, the vessel was in use as a passenger ship and communications ship. The vessel was sunk on May 31, 1944.
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