Japanese gunboat Hira


Hira 1923
Career
Name: Hira
General characteristics
Type: River gunboat
Armament: • 2 × 80 mm (3.1 in)/40 cal. guns
• 3 or 6 × 13 mm machine guns

Hira (比良?) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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