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Japan Maritime Self Defense Force / JMSDF
Murasame (1959) class Destroyer

 

 murasame class 1959 destroyer japan maritime self defense force jmsdf jds yudachi harusame
 

 

Ships:
DD 107 JDS Murasame (1959)
DD 108 JDS Yudachi (1959)
DD 109 JDS Harusame (1959)
 
Specifications:
Length: 110 meters
Beam: 11 meters
Draft: 3,7 meters
Displacement: 1840 tons (standard)
Speed: 32 knots, max. (60 km/h)
Range: ?
Complement: 220
 
Propulsion:
2 x boilers
2 x steam turbines (35000 shp)
2 shafts / 2 propellers
 
Armament:
3 x 5-inch/38-caliber (127mm) single guns
2 x 3-inch/50-caliber (76mm) twin guns
2 x 21-inch (533mm) torpedo tubes
1 x depth charge rack
1 x Hedgehog Anti-Submarine mortars

 

 

 

Ship data
unit: data:
DD 107 JDS Murasame

builder: Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Japan

laid down: December 16, 1957

launched: July 31, 1958

commissioned: March 31, 1959

reclassified to auxilary vessel ASU-7006 in 1984

decommissioned: March 23, 1988

DD 108 JDS Yudachi

builder: IHI Marine United, Yokohama, Japan

laid down: December 16, 1957

launched: July 31, 1958

commissioned: March 16, 1959

reclassified to auxilary vessel ASU-7007 in 1984

decommissioned: 1987

DD 109 JDS Harusame

builder: Sumitomo, Uraga, Japan

laid down: June 17, 1958

launched: June 18, 1959

commissioned: December 15, 1959

reclassified to auxilary vessel ASU-7008 in 1985

decommissioned: 1989

 

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