Uji on the Yangtze River, 1941
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History | |
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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.