Japanese gunboat Ataka


Ataka in 1922
Career
Name: Ataka
Builder: Yokohama Dock Co.
General characteristics
Type: River gunboat
Displacement: 880 tons normal, 1130 tons full load
Length: 67.5 meters
Beam: 9.0 meters
Draught: 2.3 meters
Propulsion: 2-shaft reciprocating engine, 1700 hp
Speed: 16 knots
Complement: 118
Armament: • 2 × 120 mm (4.7 in)/45 cal. guns
• 2 × 76 mm (3.0 in)/ 40 cal. guns
• 6 × machine guns

Ataka (安宅?) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

On 20 May 1933 Ataka was incorporated into the 3rd Fleet, as flagship of the 11th Gunboat Sentai. She was supplanted by the Yaeyama as flagship in 1937.

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