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Harukaze 1979

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
はるかぜ [Harukaze] DD101, 3.1981- ASU7002   Mitsubishi Zosen, Nagasaki 15.12.1954 20.9.1955 26.4.1956 TS 3.1981, stricken 3.1985
ゆきかぜ [Yukikaze] DD102, 3.1981- ASU7003   Shin Mitsubishi HI, Kobe 17.12.1954 20.8.1955 31.7.1956 TS 3.1981, stricken 3.1985


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1700

Displacement full, t

2340

Length, m

106.0 wl 106.3 oa

Breadth, m

10.5

Draught, m

3.70 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

DD101: 2 sets Mitsubishi/Escher Weiss geared steam turbines, 2 Hitachi/Babcock boilers

DD102: 2 sets Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 2 Combustion Engineering boilers

Power, h. p.

30000

Max speed, kts

30

Fuel, t

oil 557

Endurance, nm(kts)6000(18)
Armament

3 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 4 - 40/60 Mk 2, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 8 DCT, 1 DCR

Electronic equipment

SPS-5, SPS-6, SPG-26, SPG-34 radars, SQS-29 sonar

Complement

240



Standard scale images


<i>Harukaze </i>1960
Harukaze 1960
<i>Yukikaze </i>1978
Yukikaze 1978


Graphics


<i>Harukaze </i>1979
Harukaze 1979
<i>Yukikaze </i>1979
Yukikaze 1979


Project history

The Harukaze class was authorized under the 1953 fiscal year programme as 'A type' high-speed escort vessels. The class were conservative in size and armament, and electric welding was extensively used in hull construction. As with the destroyer escorts built under the 1953 programme, different propulsion plants were used for study purpose.

Modernizations 3.

1959, both: + 2 - 483 Mk 4 TT

early 1970s, both: - SPS-5 radar, SQS-29 sonar; + OPS-37 radar, SQS-11 sonar

1975, Yukikaze: - 1 x 1 - 127/38, 4 DCT, 1 DCR,; + SQS-30J sonar with towed passive sonar array

1980, Yukikaze: - 1 x 1 - 127/38 (No2), 1 x 4 - 40/60; + SQA-4 sonar

Naval service

Both were reclassified as Special Use Auxiliaries in 1985 and transferred to Fleet Training and Development Command.