Japanese gunboat Hira

Hira 1923

History
Empire of Japan
Name| Hira
Builder| Mitsubishi Zosensho, Kobe, Japan
Laid down| 15 August 1921
Launched| 14 March 1923
Completed| 24 August 1923, disassembled and shipped to Yangtze Engineering, Hankow, China. Reassembly finished 1 December 1923
Stricken| 10 May 1945
Fate| Scrapped 1945[1]
General characteristics
Type| Seta-class gunboat
Armament|

* 2 × 80 mm (3 in)/40 cal. guns
* 3 or 6 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) machine guns

Hira (比良) 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.

On 13 December 1937, Hira and other IJN ships engaged Chinese positions at Xiaguan, China and attacked Chinese boats and rafts on the Yangtze River. On 17 August 1944 Hira was damaged by US 14th Air Force aircraft at Kiukiang, China. On 26 November 1944 Hira and the gunboat Hozu ran aground near Anking, China. Chinese aircraft subsequently bombed and sunk Hozu and severely damaged Hira. Hira was scrapped in July 1945.[1]

## Sources

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* Japanese gunboats (with photos) (in Japanese)
* Vessels of the IJN
* Monograph 144 Chapter II

## References

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1. ^ a b "Combinedfleet Hira". Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 5 December 2012.

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Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in December 1944

Shipwrecks|

* 1 Dec: HMS Empire Dace
* 2 Dec: Hawaii Maru
* 3 Dec: USS Cooper, Revoljucija
* 4 Dec: Kishinami
* 5 Dec: Hozu, USS LSM-149
* 6 Dec: Antoine Saugrain, HMS Bullen, U-297
* 7 Dec: USS Mahan, USS Ward
* 9 Dec: U-387
* 10 Dec: William S. Ladd
* 11 Dec: USS Reid
* 12 Dec: Uzuki, U-416, Yūzuki, Z35, Z36
* 13 Dec: U-365
* 14 Dec: HMS Aldenham
* 15 Dec: USS LST-472, USS LST-738
* 17 Dec: U-772
* 18 Dec: USS Hull, USS Monaghan, Schleswig-Holstein, USS Spence, Theresia L M Russ, U-1209, Zähringen
* 19 Dec: U-737, Unryū
* 21 Dec: USS LST-460, USS LST-749
* 22 Dec: USS LST-563
* 24 Dec: Alan-A-Dale, HMCS Clayoquot, Léopoldville
* 26 Dec: HMS Capel, Kiyoshimo, U-2342, Benjamin Ide Wheeler
* 27 Dec: U-877
* 28 Dec: Empire Javelin, John Burke, U-735
* 29 Dec: U-322
* 30 Dec: USS Porcupine, Hobart Baker
* 31 Dec: U-2530
* Unknown date: Ha-83, U-196, U-400

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* 5 Dec: Antoine Saugrain, Hira
* 8 Dec: USS Huron
* 9 Dec: Jun'yō
* 13 Dec: Myōkō, USS Nashville
* 14 Dec: Schauenberg
* 25 Dec: HMS Dakins
* 26 Dec: HMS Affleck
* 30 Dec: Juan de Fuca, USS Orestes
* Unknown date: HMS Charlestown, U-262

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