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| Keywords: Chinese gunboat Chu Kuan in the 1940s.jpg The Chinese Chu-class gunboat Chu Kuan It was a Japanese-built river gunboat of 740 tons displacement launched in 1907 The gunboats were powered by coal-fired boilers providing a top speed of 13 knots and had a crew of 135 They were ewuipped with the follwing armament two 12 0 cm guns; two 7 6 cm guns; three 5 7 cm guns; one 40 mm anti-aircraft gun and two machine-guns Chu Kuan was discarded in the 1960s http //www navy mil/ah_online/department_arch html U S Navy All Hands magazine http //www navy mil/ah_online/archpdf/ah194901 pdf January 1949 p 20 s 1940 U S Navy All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official U S Navy photographs unless otherwise designated PD-USGov-Military-Navy Naval ships of the Republic of China | ||||
