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Hatakaze-class guided missile destroyer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
JS Shimakaze (DDG-172/TV-3521) is the second ship of the Hatakaze-class guided missile destroyers built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). The ship was reclassified as training ship in 2021.
JS Shimakaze (DDG-172) firing in a gunnery exercise on 21 December 2015 | |
History | |
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Name |
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Namesake | Shimakaze (1942) |
Builder | Mitsubishi, Nagasaki |
Laid down | 13 January 1985 |
Launched | 30 January 1987 |
Commissioned | 23 March 1988 |
Reclassified | Training vessel, 19 March 2021 |
Homeport | Kure |
Identification |
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Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Hatakaze-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 492.1 ft (150.0 m) |
Beam | 53.9 ft (16.4 m) |
Draft | 15.8 ft (4.8 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Complement | 260 |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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Aviation facilities | 1 × SH-60K helicopter |
Shimakaze was laid down on the 13 January 1985 at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard in Nagasaki. She was launched on 30 January 1987, and commissioned on 23 March 1988.[1]
On 23 November 2017, Shimakaze along with JS Kaga, Ise, Teruzuki and Samidare participated in the search and rescue of a crashed C-2A Greyhound from the United States Navy 7th Fleet.[2]
HMCS Ottawa, JS Chōkai and Shimakaze participated in a bilateral exercise between the Royal Canadian Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force on 16 October 2019.[3]
On 30 March 2020, Shimakaze was damaged in a collision with a Chinese fishing vessel in the East China Sea.[4][5]
Shimakaze was converted to training ship and redesignated as TV-3521 on 19 March 2021.[6]
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