Japanese river gunboat Seta 1922-1945 and Chinese Chang Te (h) 1945-1970s

Building ordered under the 1920 Fiscal Year, laid down by Harima Shipyards, Aioi, Hyogo, Japan as the Seta on 29 April 1922, launched on 30 June 1922, completed on 6 October 1923, disassembled and transported to Tunghwa Shipbuilding, Shanghai, China, reassembled, commissioned 1923-1924, sunk after an air attack on Shanghai on 26 November 944, stricken from the Japanese naval list on 30 September 1945, captured by Nationalist China, captured by the Peoples’ Republic of China on 30 November 1949 and still mentioned in the 1974/1975 edition of Jane’s Fighting Ships as Chang Teh. Also claimed that she in 1949 was renamed 1949. Displacement 254 tons and as dimensions 54.86 x 8.,23 x 0.79 metres or 180.0 x 27.0 x 2.5 feet. Machinery consisted pf 3-shaft reciprocating vertical triple expansion steam engines and 2 boilers supplying 1.400 hp allowing a speed of 15 knots. Her crew numbered 59 men. Armament 2-8cm/3.1” 45 cal guns and 6x1-7.7mm machine guns, the latter replaced by 1940 by 5x1-13.2 mm machine guns and in 1943 by 6x1-2.5 cm type 96 auto cannon. In Chinese service oil fuel bunker capacity of 85 tons and by 1963 armed with 2-3” guns and 6 machine guns.