Hashidate (橋立, Standing Bridge) was the lead vessel in the Hashidate-class gunboats in the Imperial Japanese Navy, that operated in China during the 1940s.

She was laid down at Osaka Iron Works on February 20, 1939 and launched on December 23, 1939, and was commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy as on June 30, 1940.

[1] She was intended initially for support of combat operations by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War off the coast of China.

With the start of the Pacific War, she was assigned to ”Operation C” – the invasion of Hong Kong.

On May 22, 1944, she was torpedoed by USS Picuda (SS-382) in the South China Sea off Pratas Island while towing the crippled merchant passenger/cargo ship Tsukuba Maru at position 21°08′N 117°20′E / 21.133°N 117.333°E / 21.133; 117.333.