Japanese gunboat Toba

Toba in 1935
History
Japan
NameToba
Ordered1910 Fiscal Year
BuilderSasebo Naval Arsenal
Laid down7 July 1911
Launched7 November 1911
Commissioned17 November 1911
FateCeded to China 1945
Taiwan
NameYong Ji & Haoxue
Commissioned17 April 1948
Fatecaptured by PRC in Chinese Civil War
China
NameXiang Jiang
Acquired29 November 1949
FateScrapped in 1960s
General characteristics
TypeRiver gunboat
Displacement250 long tons (254 t) initial
Length54.86 metres (180.0 ft)
Beam8.23 metres (27.0 ft)
Draught0.79 metres (2.6 ft).
Propulsion3-shaft reciprocating VTE engines; 2 boilers; 1,400 hp (1,000 kW)
Speed15 knots (17 mph; 28 km/h)
Complement59
Armament

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.