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Seta 1936  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
勢多 [Seta]			Harima Zosen / Tunghwa SB, Shanghai, China	4.1922	30.6.1922	10.1923	surrendered 8.1945, to China 8.1945 (常德 [Chang Teh])
堅田 [Kataka]			Harima Zosen / Tunghwa SB, Shanghai, China	4.1922	16.7.1922	10.1923	surrendered 8.1945, BU 1946
比良 [Hira]			Mitsubishi, Kobe / Yangtze Eng. Co, Hankow, China	8.1921	14.3.1923	8.1923	damaged 26.11.1944, never repaired
保津 [Hozu]			Mitsubishi, Kobe / Yangtze Eng. Co, Hankow, China	8.1921	9.4.1923	11.1923	damaged 26.11.1944, never repaired

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	338
Displacement full, t	400
Length, m	54.9 pp 56.1 oa
Breadth, m	8.23
Draught, m	1.02
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 2-cyl VC, 2 Kampon boilers
Power, h. p.	2100
Max speed, kts	16
Fuel, t	coal 74 + oil 25
Endurance, nm(kts)	1750(10)
Armament	2 x 1 - 76/40 3-shiki, 6 x 1 - 7.7/80
Complement	62

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Project history

River gunboats of Seta class were intended for service on Chinese rivers. Ships had  similar characteristics and outwardly resembled predeccessors. Built under the 1921-1928 programme.

Modernizations

1940, all: - 2 x 1 - 76/40, 6 x 1 - 7.7/80; + 2 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 6 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki

1945, both survived: - 6 x 1 - 25/60; + 5 x 1 - 13.2/76

Naval service

In 1945 both survived gunboats transferred their guns to coastal batteries.

Hozu was sunk on shallow water 26.11.1944 by Chinese aircraft. Hira was hard damaged 26.11.1944 by Chinese aircraft, not repaired and in spring 1945 handed over on demolition. Kataka was hard damaged 18.12.1944 by US aircraft, again damaged 2.4.1945, after war transferred to China, but never entered service.

In 1945 China received Seta.