Japanese gunboat Hozu

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. On August 13, 1937 Hozu and other IJN ships bombard Chinese positiona at Shanghai. On December 13 Hozu and other ships engage Chinese positions at Xiaguan and attack Chinese boats and rafts on the Yangtze River. On December 5, 1944 Hozu & Gunboat Hira run aground near Anking. They are bombed by Chinese aircraft, Hira is damaged & Hozu sunk. Wreck scrapped 1945