Japanese gunboat Katata
Katata around 1935
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| 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. |
| Struck: | 3 May 1947 |
| Fate: | 1945 to China |
| Status: | scrapped |
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| 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.
Katata was the second of the Seta-class river gunboats built under the 1920 Fleet Building Program of the Imperial Japanese Navy for operations on the inland waterways of China.
The basic design of Katata was modeled after that of the gunboat Toba, with the same general dimensions and layout. Katata had a hull with an overall length of 56.08 metres (184.0 ft) and width of 8.23 metres (27.0 ft), with a normal displacement of 338 tons and draft of 1.02 metres (3.3 ft). She was propelled by two reciprocating engines with two Kampon boilers driving three shafts, producing 1,400 hp (1,000 kW) and had a top speed of 16 knots.
The ship was initially armed with two 80 mm (3.1 in)/28 cal. guns and six 7.7mm machine guns.
Katata was laid down on 29 April 1922 and launched 16 July 1922 at the Harima Shipyards at Aioi, Hyogo, Japan. As the design was incapable of open ocean sailing, she was then broken down into sections and shipped to the Tunghwa Shipyard in Shanghai, where she was reassembled and completed on 20 October 1923. She was assigned to patrols of the Yangtze River from Shanghai to the Three Gorges, for commerce protection and as a show of force in protection of Japanese nationals and economic interests through the rest of the 1920s and early 1930s. Katata was commanded by Lieutenant Commander Masatomi Kimura from January to September 1932.
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