Italian minelayer Lepanto

	Lepanto at Yokohama in 1938
History
Italy
Name	Lepanto
Namesake	Battle of Lepanto
Builder	Cantieri Navali Riuniti (CNR), Ancona
Laid down	1925
Launched	22 May 1927
Commissioned	1927
Fate	Scuttled 9 September 1943 at Shanghai
Japan
Name	Okitsu (興津)
Namesake	Okitsu-juku
Builder	Navy 1st Construction Department at Shanghai
Acquired	8 November 1943
Commissioned	1 March 1944
Decommissioned	30 September 1945
Fate	Surrendered to Republic of China on 15 September 1945
Republic of China
Name	Hsien Ning (咸寧)
Namesake	Xianning
Acquired	15 September 1945
Commissioned	1946
Decommissioned	1956
Identification	Pennant number: 79
Fate	Scrapped in 1956
General characteristics as Lepanto
Class and type	Azio-class minelayer
Displacement	615 long tons (625 t)
Length	66.0 m (216 ft 6 in) (overall)
Beam	8.7 m (28 ft 7 in)
Draft	2.4 m (7 ft 10 in)
Propulsion	2 × Yarrow three expansion stages reciprocating engines; 2 × water tube boilers; 2 shafts, 1,500 shp;
Speed	15.0 knots (27.8 km/h; 17.3 mph)
Complement	66
Armament	2 × 102 mm (4.0 in) naval guns; 1 × 76 mm (3.0 in) 76/40 Ansaldo Mod. 1917 AA gun; 2 × machine guns; 80 × naval mines;
General characteristics as Okitsu
Class and type	Gunboat
Displacement	700 long tons (711 t) standing
Length	62.18 m (204 ft 0 in) Lpp
Beam	8.69 m (28 ft 6 in)
Draft	2.60 m (8 ft 6 in)
Speed	13.7 knots (25.4 km/h; 15.8 mph)
Complement	approx. 80
Armament	2 × 76.2 mm (3.00 in) L/40 AA guns; 10 × Type 96 25 mm AA guns; 36 × depth charges; 2 × Type 94 depth charge projectors; 2 × depth charge throwers; 1 × Type 93 active sonar; 1 × Type 93 hydrophone;
General characteristics as Hsien Ning
Type	Frigate
Armament	in 1950; 2 × 3-inch/50-caliber guns; 2 × 1.1-inch/75-caliber guns; 4 × 20 mm AA guns;

Lepanto was an Azio-class minelayer of the Italian Navy. She was reclassified as gunboat in 1934 and remained in Italian service in the far east from 1933 to 1943, when she was scuttled in China, during World War II. She was then recovered by the Imperial Japanese Navy and taken into service as Okitsu, spending the remainder of the war escorting convoys. She was surrendered to the Republic of China after the end of the war and served for a further ten years with its navy as the Hsien Ning.

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