 JSShirane underway in 2013 | |
| History | |
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| Name |
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| Namesake | Mount Shirane |
| Ordered | 1975 |
| Builder | IHI, Tokyo |
| Laid down | 25 February 1977 |
| Launched | 18 September 1978 |
| Commissioned | 17 March 1980 |
| Decommissioned | 25 March 2015 |
| Homeport | |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Shirane-class destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 159 m (522 ft) |
| Beam | 17.5 m (57 ft) |
| Draft | 5.3 m (17 ft) |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 31knots (36 mph; 57 km/h) |
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| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | 3 × SH-60J(K) anti-submarine helicopters |
JSShirane (しらね, Shi-ra-ne) (DDH-143) was the lead shipofthe eponymous class of destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).
The vessel was laid downbyIshikawajima-HarimainTokyo on February 25, 1977; launched on September 18, 1978; and commissioned on March 17, 1980.
In 2011, after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, she was used as a relief ship. In 2012, along with attending RIMPAC, she also attended Fleet Week, a United States naval tradition in which naval ships are showcased.[1] On December 15, 2007, a fire broke out on board Shirane near the rudder house as she was anchored at Yokosuka. It took seven hours to extinguish and injured four crew members.[2]
Shirane visited Baltimore on her way to New York City as part of Fleet Week 2012.[3] She was open to visitors for a few days.[4] she passed by the Freedom Tower as part of the ship parade in New York Harbor and the Hudson River on May 23, 2012.[5] Shirane was one of three ships sent by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force to attend Exercise RIMPAC, along with JS Bungo and the destroyer JS Myōkō.[6]
She was decommissioned on March 25, 2015, as the Shirane class was slowly being phased out by the newer Izumo-class helicopter destroyers.
In November 2015, the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced that Shirane would be in a live-fire test against the XASM-3 supersonic anti-ship missile in 2016.[7] After undergoing several tests in Wakasa Bay as a target for XASM-3 she was sold for scrapping on October 31 and dismantling began on the same day.[8]
Media related to JS Shirane (DDH-143) at Wikimedia Commons
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