Fushimi was laid down on 15 July 1933 and launched 26 March 1939 at the
Fujinagata Shipyards in
Osaka, Japan. On commissioning on 15 July 1939, she was assigned to the
Yokosuka Naval District and attached to the
1st China Expeditionary Fleet, arriving in
Shanghai on 15 November. From 1 April 1940 to 21 June, she was assigned to patrols of the middle
Yangtze River from
Hankou, and from November to April 1941, to patrols of the middle Yangtze as far as
Hankou. However, she returned to Japan in July for repairs, and from 30 October 1941, was based at
Nanjing. On 8 December 1941,
Fushimi became the
flagship for Vice Admiral Prince
Teruhisa Komatsu’s First China Fleet Yangtze Squadron, Upper River Division, and supported operations by the
Imperial Japanese Army. She was repaired in Shanghai in July 1942, and was reassigned to the Middle River Division based at Hankou from 2 August. Her anti-aircraft capability was bolstered by the addition of six more
Type 96 25mm auto cannon at the end of 1942. From 4 September 1943,
Fushimi was attached to the Lower River Division, and patrolled Tung Ting Lake and adjacent waterways from 10 November. On 29 November 1944, she was attacked by
Republic of China Air Force aircraft and sunk near
Anqing. She was later refloated and towed to Shanghai, where her armaments were removed on 10 January 1945 to help bolster the land-based defenses. Her hulk remained docked at Shanghai until the
surrender of Japan. In September 1945,
Fushimi was given to the
Republic of China as a
prize of war, and commissioned into the
Republic of China Navy as the
Chiang Feng (). She was removed from the Japanese
navy list on 3 May 1947. Captured during the
Chinese Civil War by the
People’s Republic of China, her subsequent fate is unknown. ==Notes==