Japanese gunboat Atami explained
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. After World War II, the ship entered service with the
Republic of China Navy as
Yong Ping (永平), but was captured by the Chinese communists at the end of Chinese Civil War, and entered
People's Liberation Army Navy as
Wu Jiang (乌江). The ship was finally scrapped in the 1960s.
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