Japanese gunboat Katata
Katata around 1935 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Katata |
| Ordered | 1910 Fiscal Year |
| Builder | Harima Shipyards, Japan |
| Laid down | 29 April 1922 |
| Launched | 16 July 1922, disassembled and shipped to Shanghai, China. Reassembly started 25 January 1923 Tunghwa Shipyard |
| Completed | 20 October 1923. |
| Stricken | 3 May 1947 |
| Fate | 1945 to China |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Seta-class gunboat |
| Displacement | 338 long tons (343 t) initial |
| Length | 56.08 metres (184.0 ft) |
| Beam | 8.23 metres (27.0 ft) |
| Draught | 1.02 metres (3.3 ft). |
| Propulsion | 2-shaft reciprocating VTE engines; 2 boilers; 2,100 hp (1,600 kW) |
| Speed | 16 knots (18 mph; 30 km/h) |
| Range | 1750 nautical miles @ 10 knots |
| Complement | 62 |
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Katata (堅田, also Katada) 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 1920s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.