Japanese gunboat Ataka
 Ataka in 1922 | |
| History | |
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| Name: | Ataka |
| Builder: | Yokohama Dock Co. |
| Laid down: | 15 August 1921 |
| Launched: | 11 April 1922 |
| Completed: | 12 August 1922 |
| Out of service: | Sunk 24 September 1949 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | River gunboat |
| Displacement: | 880 tons normal, 1130 tons full load |
| Length: | 67.67 m |
| Beam: | 9.75 m |
| Draught: | 2.2 m mean |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft reciprocating engine, 1700 hp |
| Speed: | 16 knots |
| Range: | 2,500 nm at 12 knots |
| Complement: | 118 |
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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.
Based in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ataka was transferred to the Republic of China Navy after the war. She defected to the People's Liberation Army Navy in 1949, and was sunk in Wuhu by Nationalist aircraft on 24 September the same year.
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