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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, t	304
Displacement full, t	368
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, t	oil
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
Complement	64

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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.