| Japanese gunboat Futami | |
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 Futami in 1933 | |
| Career |  |
| Name: | Futami |
| Builder: | Fujinagata Zosensho |
| Laid down: | 25 June 1929 |
| Launched: | 20 November 1929 |
| Completed: | 28 February 1930 |
| Struck: | 30 Sept 1945.[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | River gunboat |
| Armament: |
• 2 × 80 mm (3.1 in)/28 cal. guns • 6 × machine guns |
Futami (二見) 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. It ran aground on uncharted rocks in the Yangtze River on 14 June 1933. It was refloated and repaired at Shanghai in August 1933. It was given to the Republic of China as war reparations in 1946 and renamed Yung An. Surrendered to the Chinese Communists in 1949, it joined the People's Liberation Army (Navy) and was given an unknown name.[2]
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- ↑ "Combinedfleet Futami". Combinedfleet.com. http://www.combinedfleet.com/Futami_t.htm. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
- ↑ "Combinedfleet Futami". Combinedfleet.com. http://www.combinedfleet.com/Futami_t.htm. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
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