Italian gunboat Ermanno Carlotto

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Carlotto sailing on a river in China in the late 1930s.
History
Italy
Name	Ermanno Carlotto
Namesake	Ermanno Carlotto
Builder	Shanghai Docks and Engineering Company, Shanghai
Laid down	March 1914
Launched	19 June 1918
Commissioned	28 February 1921[1]
Motto	Parva favilla gran fiamma seconda
Fate	Scuttled on 9 September 1943
Empire of Japan
Name	Narumi
Namesake	Japanese: 鳴海, lit. 'the roaring of the sea'
Commissioned	October 1943
Fate	Transferred to the Republic of China Navy in 1945-46 as reparations
Republic of China
Name	Qian Kun
Namesake	Chinese: 錢坤
Commissioned	1 January 1947
Fate	Captured or scuttled between 1947 and 1949
People's Republic of China
Name	Qian Kun
Commissioned	1949
Fate	Scrapped between 1958 and 1976
General characteristics
Class and type	river gunboat
Displacement	247 t (243 long tons)[2] standard 318 t (313 long tons) full load
Length	48.8 m (160 ft 1 in)
Beam	7.5 m (24 ft 7 in)
Draught	0.84–0.91 m (2.8–3.0 ft) (light) 1–1.3 m (3.3–4.3 ft) (full load)
Installed power	1,100 hp (810 kW)
Propulsion	2 × Yarrow coal boilers (later oil fired) 2 × vertical triple expansion steam engines with 3 cylinders 2 × shafts
Speed	13.5–14 kn (15.5–16.1 mph; 25.0–25.9 km/h)
Range	1,250 nmi (2,320 km; 1,440 mi) at 8–9 knots (15–17 km/h; 9.2–10.4 mph)
Complement	4 officers, 56 non-commissioned officers and sailors [3]
Armament	As built: 2 × 76.2 mm (3 in) L/40 naval guns 6 × 8 mm (0.31 in) machine guns 2 × 6.5 mm (0.26 in) machine guns Later: 2 × 76.2 mm (3 in) L/40 guns 6 × 8 mm (0.31 in) machine guns From 1943: 2 × Type 3 76.2 mm (3 in) L/40 naval guns 2 × Type 96 25 mm (0.98 in) naval guns 2 (later 4) × Type 93 13.2 mm (0.52 in) anti-aircraft machine guns 4 × Type 92 7.7 mm (0.30 in) machine guns
Notes	data taken from Italiani a Shanghai, In guerra sul mare, Trentoincina, Navyworld, Materials of IJN, Ramius-Militaria, Oceania and Almanacco Storico Navale

Ermanno Carlotto was a river gunboat of the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy). After the Italian armistice of 1943 she served in the Imperial Japanese Navy as Narumi, while after the end of World War II she was used by the Navy of the Republic of China and then by the Navy of the People's Republic of China as Qian Kun.