Japanese gunboat Toba
Toba in 1935 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Japan | |
| Name | Toba |
| Ordered | 1910 Fiscal Year |
| Builder | Sasebo Naval Arsenal |
| Laid down | 7 July 1911 |
| Launched | 7 November 1911 |
| Commissioned | 17 November 1911 |
| Fate | Ceded to China 1945 |
| Taiwan | |
| Name | Yong Ji & Haoxue |
| Commissioned | 17 April 1948 |
| Fate | captured by PRC in Chinese Civil War |
| China | |
| Name | Xiang Jiang |
| Acquired | 29 November 1949 |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1960s |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | River gunboat |
| Displacement | 250 long tons (254 t) initial |
| Length | 54.86 metres (180.0 ft) |
| Beam | 8.23 metres (27.0 ft) |
| Draught | 0.79 metres (2.6 ft). |
| Propulsion | 3-shaft reciprocating VTE engines; 2 boilers; 1,400 hp (1,000 kW) |
| Speed | 15 knots (17 mph; 28 km/h) |
| Complement | 59 |
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Toba (鳥羽) (meaning "bird wing") 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 and World War II.