Japanese gunboat Saga | |
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![]() IJN gunboat SAGA in 1915 | |
Career | ![]() |
Name: | Saga |
Ordered: | 1911 |
Builder: | Sasebo Naval Arsenal |
Laid down: | 7 January 1912 |
Launched: | 27 September 1912 |
Completed: | 8 November 1912 |
Commissioned: | 18 November 1912 |
Out of service: | Sunk 22 January 1945 |
Struck: | 20 March 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Gunboat |
Displacement: | 785 tons normal, 885 tons full load |
Length: | 64 m |
Beam: | 8.99 m |
Draught: | 2.31 m mean |
Propulsion: | 2-shaft reciprocating engine, 1600 hp |
Speed: | 15 knots |
Complement: | 98 |
Armament: |
• 1 × 120 mm (4.7 in)/45 cal. guns • 3 × 76 mm (3.0 in)/ 40 cal. guns • 3 × machine guns |
Saga was a gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She participated in the Siege of Tsingtao 25 September-16 November 1914. She participated in the Battle of Hong Kong, where she was based afterwards. She was sunk by a sea mine on 26 September 1944, off Hong Kong then refloated for repair in Hong Kong, where she was sunk again on 22 January 1945 by American airplanes(probably 14th Air Force B-24s) and was struck afterwards.[1]
References[]
- ↑ "Japanese Gunboats". Combinedfleet.com. http://www.combinedfleet.com/Saga_t.htm. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
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