Japanese gunboat Hozu

Hozu around 1935

History
Japan
Name| Hozu
Builder| Mitsubishi Zosensho, Kobe, Japan
Laid down| 15 August 1921
Launched| 9 April 1923
Completed| 1923, disassembled & shipped to China 11 November 1923. Reassembly completed 1 December 1923.[1]
Stricken| 10 May 1945
Fate| Sunk 5 December 1944 December by air attack
General characteristics
Type| Seta-class gunboat
Armament|

* 2 × 8 cm (3.1 in)/40 3rd Year Type guns
* 3 or 6 × 13.2 mm (0.52 in) Hotchkiss M1929 machine guns

Hozu (保津) 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 August 13, 1937 Hozu and other IJN ships bombarded Chinese positions at Shanghai. On December 13 Hozu and other ships engaged Chinese positions at Xiaguan and attacked Chinese boats and rafts on the Yangtze River. On December 5, 1944 Hozu and the gunboat Hira ran aground near Anking. They were subsequently bombed by Chinese aircraft, Hira was damaged and Hozu was sunk. The wreck was scrapped 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 "IJN River Gunboat HOZU: Tabular Record of Movement". 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

Other incidents|

* 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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