History
Name:
Kotaka Namesake:
general term of small accipitridae (example: Eurasian sparrowhawk )[1] Ordered:
fiscal year 1929 [2] Builder:
Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding , Tama shipyard Cost:
246,561 JPY [3] Laid down:
2 September 1929 Launched:
18 January 1930 Completed:
1 November 1930 Commissioned:
1930–1944 Stricken:
1944 Homeport:
Shanghai Fate:
sunk by air raid on 31 May 1944
General characteristics Type:
River gunboat Displacement:
50 tons standard
60.67 long tons (62 t) standing [4]
Length:
30.5 meters
30 m (98 ft 5 in) lpp [4]
Beam:
4.90 m (16 ft 1 in) [5] Draught:
0.64 m (2 ft 1 in) [4] Propulsion:
2 × Niigata Iron Works diesels, 540 bhp [4] Speed:
15.5 knots (17.8 mph; 28.7 km/h) Range:
1,000 nmi (1,900 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) [3] Armament:
3 × Type 92 7.7 mm machine guns [4] [6] machine guns
Kotaka (小鷹 ) 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 . Participated in the Battle of Wuhan, June-Sept., 1938. Participated in Battle of Madang and Battle of Jiujiang, June, 1938. Nanchang Campaign: February–May, 1939. 1942: In service as passenger ship. Sunk May 31, 1944 on the Yangtze River while serving as a communications ship.[7] 60-ton traffic ship (Motored river exclusive-Special type) (六拾瓲交通船 (内火式河用特型), , 60-ton kōtsūsen (Uchibishiki kawayou-Tokugata) .[1] [4]
^ a b Daiji Katagiri, p. 489
^ JACAR A09050130100
^ a b JACAR A09050130100, p. 20–21
^ a b c d e f The Maru Special (1981), p. 37
^ JACAR C05021206200, p. 9
^ JACAR C05021645000, p. 2, p. 7
^ "Japanese Gunboats" . Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 31 May 2013 .
Bibliography [ edit ] The Maru Special, Japanese Naval Vessels No.53, Japanese support vessels , "Ushio Shobō" .
Daiji Katagiri, Ship Name Chronicles of the Imperial Japanese Navy Combined Fleet , Kōjinsha (Japan), June 1988, ISBN 4-7698-0386-9
"Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR)" .National Archives of Japan
Reference code: A09050130100, Explanatory document on addition of fiscal 1929 estimated expense in 56th Diet
Reference code: C05021206200, Inquiry, Response, Notification (6)
Reference code: C05022903500, Military Affairs 1, No. 88 June 21, 1933, Traffic ship, Kotaka
Reference code: C05021645000, No. 2026 June 15, 1931 Sasebo Navy Arsenal No.10-26, Establishing part of equipment for traffic ship Kotaka Sources [ edit ] Shipwrecks
1 May: U-277 2 May: U-674 U-959 3 May: USS Donnell , U-852 4 May: U-371 U-846 5 May: USS Fechteler 6 May: U-66 U-473 U-765 7 May: HMCS Valleyfield 9 May: USS PC-558 10 May: Karukaya Totila 11 May: USS YF-415 13 May: Ro-501 14 May: America Maru Inazuma U-1234 15 May: U-731 16 May: I-176 17 May: U-616 19 May: U-960 U-1015 I-16 21 May: USS LST-353 , USS LST-480 , U-453 22 May: Asanagi Hashidate Ro-106 23 May: Ro-104 24 May: Ro-116 U-675 25 May: U-476 U-990 26 May: Ro-108 27 May: U-292 28 May: UJ 2210 29 May: USS Block Island , U-549 31 May: Ishigaki Kotaka Ro-105 U-289 Unknown date: U-240 Other incidents
