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ATADA training gunboat (1930 / 1938)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
阿多田 [Atada] (ex-逸仙 [Yat Sen])     Kiangan Dock, China 1.1930 12.11.1930 1930 // 5.1938 captured 8.1945, to China 8.1946 (一行 [I Hsien])


Technical data


Displacement normal, t1520
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

78.2 pp 82.3 oa

Breadth, m

10.5

Draught, m

3.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 3 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

4000

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, tcoal 280
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

3 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 2 x 2 - 13.2/76

Complement

173



Standard scale images


<i>Atada</i> 1940
Atada 1940


Project history

Former Chinese gunboat Yat Sen, capsized and sunk 25.9.1937 after bombing by Japanese aircraft. In the end of the same year she was salvaged by Japanese and after repair entered service in May, 1938 under name Atada as training ship for Naval Academy. She received new tripod mast, new bridge and cadet accomodation under raised quarterdeck.

Modernizations

1940s, presumably: + radar

Naval service

In the end of war she was converted to AA floating battery.