JDS Shirayuki (DD-123)

JS Sawayuki in port
Shirayuki
History
Japan
Name: JS Shirayuki
Builder: Hitachi
Laid down: 3 December 1979
Launched: 4 August 1981
Commissioned: 8 February 1982
Decommissioned: 27 April 2016
Reclassified: TV-3517
Status: Retired
General characteristics
Class and type: Hatsuyuki-class destroyer
Displacement: 2,950 long tons (3,000 t)
Length: 130 m (430 ft)
Beam: 13.6 m (45 ft)
Draft: 4.2 m (14 ft)
Propulsion:
  • 2 x Kawasaki/Rolls-Royce Olympus TM-3B gas turbines (45000 shp)
  • 2 x Kawasaki/Rolls-Royce Tyne RM-1C gas turbines (9900 shp)
  • 2 shafts, 2 controllable pitch propellers
Speed: 30 knts
Complement: 200
Armament:
  • 1 x Oto-Melara 76mm/62-caliber gun (3-inches)
  • 2 x Mk-141 missile launcher for 8 RGM-84 Harpoon SSM
  • 1 x Mk-29 launcher for 8 RIM-7 Sea Sparrow SAM
  • 2 x Mk-15 Phalanx Close-In-Weapon-System (CIWS)
  • 1 x Mk-16 launcher for 8 RUR-5 ASROC anti-submarine rockets
  • 2 x HOS-301 (Mk-32) 12,75-inch (324mm) triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried: 1 S-61 Sea King or SH-60J Seahawk
Aviation facilities: flight deck and hangar for 1 helicopter

JDS Shirayuki is a Hatsuyuki-class destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. Commissioned in 1982.

Construction and design

Shirayuki was ordered as part of the Japan Self-Defense Forces 1978 defense estimates as the second ship of the Hatsuyuki-class, and was laid down at Hitachi's Maizuru shipyard on 3 December 1979.[1] The ship was launched on 4 August 1981, and commissioned on 8 February 1983.[2]

The Hatsuyuki class were designed as multi-purpose ships, with a balanced armament and sensor fit, so that the ships could carry out anti-submarine and anti-surface ship operations while being capable of defending themselves against air attack. A hangar and flight deck are carried for a single helicopter, which was initially the Mitsubishi HSS-2, a license-built Sikorsky Sea King, later replaced by Mitsubishi H-60s (licensed Sikorsky S-70s), with the Canadian Beartrap haul-down system fitted to ease operations of large helicopters.[2][3] An octuple Mk 112 launcher for ASROC anti-submarine missiles is fitted forward, while additional close-in anti-submarine armament is provided by two triple 324-mm torpedo-tubes for Mark 46 anti-submarine torpedoes.[2][3] The initial anti-aircraft armament consisted of a Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile launcher aft, with an OTO Melara 76 mm gun forward. Eight Harpoon anti-ship missiles are carried in two quadruple mounts abaft the ship's funnel.[2]

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References

  1. Moore 1985, p. 289.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Gardiner and Chumbley 1995, p. 228.
  3. 1 2 Saunders 2002, p. 385.


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