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 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 ariver gunboat of theImperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th GunboatSentai, that operated on theYangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during theSecond Sino-Japanese War.

On August 13, 1937Hozu and other IJN ships bombarded Chinese positions atShanghai. On December 13Hozu and other ships engaged Chinese positions at Xiaguan and attacked Chinese boats and rafts on the Yangtze River. On December 5, 1944Hozu and the gunboatHira ran aground near Anking. They were subsequently bombed by Chinese aircraft,Hira was damaged andHozu was sunk. The wreck was scrapped 1945.^[1]

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