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OKITSU gunboat (1927 / 1944)


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Okitsu Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.  

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
興津 [Okitsu] (ex-Lepanto)   101 CNR, Ancona, Italy 1925 22.5.1927 1927 // 3.1944 surrendered 8.1945, to China 1946 (咸寧 [Hsien Ning])


Technical data


Displacement standard, t700
Displacement full, t~ 850
Length, m

62.2

Breadth, m

8.69

Draught, m

2.59

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 water-tube boilers

Power, h. p.

1500

Max speed, kts

15

Fuel, toil 75
Endurance, nm(kts)3500(10)
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, 4 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (36)

Electronic equipment3-shiki 1-go radar
Complement184


Standard scale images


<i>Okitsu</i> 1944
Okitsu 1944


Graphics


<i> Okitsu</i> <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>  
Okitsu Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.  


Project history

Former Italian minelayer Lepanto, scuttled by own crew at Shanghai 9.9.1943. In February, 1944 she was salvaged by Japanese and in March commissioned as gunboat.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Okitsu was 21.3.1945 hard damaged by US Army aircraft, in August, 1945 she surrendered to Allies and transferred to China.



Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.