Japanese gunboat Uji (1940)
Uji on the Yangtze River, 1941 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Empire of Japan | |
| Name | Uji |
| Ordered | 1937 |
| Builder | Osaka Iron Works |
| Laid down | January 20, 1940 |
| Launched | September 29, 1940 |
| Completed | April 30, 1941 |
| Stricken | October 25, 1945 |
| Fate | Prize of war to China, September 13, 1945 |
| Republic of China | |
| Name | Chang Zhi |
| Acquired | 19 September 1945 |
| Stricken | 22 September 1949 |
| Fate | rebelled in Chinese Civil War |
| People's Republic of China | |
| Name | Chang Zhi |
| Acquired | 19 September 1949 |
| Renamed | Nan Chang |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1980s |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Gunboat |
| Displacement | 993 long tons (1,009 t) |
| Length | 78.5 m (258 ft) |
| Beam | 9.7 m (31 ft 10 in) |
| Draught | 2.45 m (8 ft 0 in) |
| Propulsion | 4,600 hp (3,400 kW) geared turbine |
| Speed | 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h; 22.4 mph) |
| Range | 2,500 nmi (4,600 km; 2,900 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement | 158 |
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Uji (宇治) was the second and final vessel in the Hashidate-class gunboats in the Imperial Japanese Navy, that operated in China during the 1940s.