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History
Hozu around 1935
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.
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.

Sources

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

References

^ "IJN River Gunboat HOZU: Tabular Record of Movement". Combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 5 December 2012.

v t e Seta-class gunboats
Seta Katada Hira Hozu
List of ships of the Japanese Navy

v t e Imperial Japanese Navy
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v t e 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
1943 1944 1945 November 1944 January 1945

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