Name Hozu Struck 10 May 1945 Construction started 15 August 1921 Builder Kobe | Laid down 15 August 1921 Launched 9 April 1923 | |
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Completed 1923, disassembled & shipped to China 11 November 1923. Reassembly completed 1 December 1923. Fate 1944 December 5 sunk {air attack} | ||
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 bombarded Chinese positions at Shanghai. On December 13 Hozu and other ships engaged Chinese positions at Xiaguan and attacked Chinese boats and rafts on the Yangtze River. On December 5, 1944 Hozu and the gunboat Hira ran aground near Anking. They were subsequently bombed by Chinese aircraft, Hira was damaged and Hozu was sunk. The wreck was scrapped 1945
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