Japanese gunboat Katada

Katada (堅田) 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.13 August 1937 bombarded Chinese positions at Shanghai. 12 December 1944 US Army aircraft bomb and damage, possibly sunk and salvaged, near Kiokiang, China. Towed to Shanghai. Stripped of armament early 1945. Bombed and damaged by US Army P-51s 2 April 1945. Given to the Republic of China as War reparations in 1946. Scrapped sometime later.