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FUSHIMI river gunboats (1939 - 1940)


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  Sumida  

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
伏見 [Fushimi]     Fujinagata, Osaka 7/1938 26.3.1939 7.1939 surrendered 8.1945, to China 8.1945 (江西 [Kiang Shih])
隅田 [Sumida]     Fujinagata, Osaka 4.1939 30.10.1939 5.1940 surrendered 8.1945, to China 8.1945 (南昌 [Nan Chang])


Technical data


Displacement standard, t304
Displacement full, t368
Length, m

48.5 pp 50.0 wl 50.3 oa

Breadth, m

9.78

Draught, m

1.26

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets geared steam turbines, 2 Kampon boilers

Power, h. p.

2200

Max speed, kts

17

Fuel, toil
Endurance, nm(kts)1500(14)
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/23 41-shiki, 1 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 x 1 - 7.7/80

Complement64


Standard scale images


<i>Fushimi</i> 1941
Fushimi 1941


Graphics


  <i> Sumida</i>  
  Sumida  


Project history

River gunboats of Fushimi class were intended for service on Chinese rivers. They had turbines instead of traditional steam engine, and number of funnels was shrank from two to one. They were built under 3rd Supplementary programme of 1937. Under the 1942 programme two more gunboats of this class were provided (Nos 868 and 869), but they were never laid down.

Modernizations

1942 - 1943, both: - 1 x 1 - 76/23, 2 x 1 - 7.7/80; + 1 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 3 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki

1945, both: disarmed

Naval service

In 1945 both gunboats transferred their guns to coastal batteries.

Fushimi was sunk by Chinese aircraft 25.11.1944, subsequently raised and commissioned again.

In 1945 China received Fushimi and Sumida.