Japanese gunboat Hozu


Hozu around 1935
Career
Name: Hozu
Completed: 1921
Fate: 1944 December 5 sunk {air attack}
General characteristics
Type: River gunboat
Armament: • 2 × 80 mm (3.1 in)/40 cal. guns
• 3 or 6 × 13 mm machine guns

Hozu (保津?) 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.

Sources