Japanese gunboat Ataka
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{{nihongo|Ataka|安宅}} was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
On 20 May 1933 Ataka was incorporated into the 3rd Fleet, as flagship of the 11th Gunboat Sentai. She was supplanted by the {{ship|Japanese minelayer|Yaeyama||2}} as flagship in 1937.
Based in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ataka was transferred to the Republic of China Navy after the war. She defected to the People's Liberation Army Navy in 1949, and was sunk in Wuhu by Nationalist aircraft on 23 September the same year.{{cite web |url=http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?f=149&t=50411 |title=Chinese Naval Battles(Civil War and later)(update2021) |access-date=2 September 2022 |archive-date=3 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903023247/http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?f=149&t=50411 |url-status=dead }}
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071015214059/http://earth.endless.ne.jp/users/mac0115/nihonnnokanntei7.html Japanese gunboats (with photos)] {{in lang|ja}}
- [http://admiral31.world.coocan.jp/e/stc0652.htm Vessels of the IJN]
- [http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/monos/144/144chap2.html#Shanghai%20Incident Monograph 144 Chapter II]
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Category:Gunboats of the Imperial Japanese Navy
Category:Second Sino-Japanese War naval ships of Japan
Category:Gunboats sunk by aircraft
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