JS Shimakaze
| File:DDG-172 04l.jpg JS Shimakaze (DDG-172) firing in a gunnery exercise on 21 December 2015 | |
| History | |
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| File:Naval Ensign of Japan.svgJapan | |
| 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 & 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 & processing systems |
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| Armament |
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| Aviation facilities | 1 × SH-60K helicopter |
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 a training ship in 2021.
Construction and career
[edit | edit source]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 the JMSDF 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 a training ship and redesignated as TV-3521 on 19 March 2021.[6]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
