IJN First-class destroyer Tsuta (Tachibana-class)
The disarmed former IJN First-class destroyer Tsuta (Tachibana-class), departing for Sasebo Shanghai as a reparation ship, July 26, 1947. Note the Tachibana class’ transom stern, which is different from the more destroyer-like stern on the standard Matsu class. Tsuta was later handed over to the Republic of China on 31 July 1947 in Shanghai, and, rearmed, served for another decade as ROCN Hua Yang,