JDS Chikugo

JDS Chikugo (DE-215) is the lead ship of Chikugo-class destroyer escort of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

JS Chikugo
History
Japan
Name:
  • Chikugo
  • (ちくご)
Namesake: Chikugo
Ordered: 1967
Builder: Mitsui, Tamano
Laid down: 9 December 1968
Launched: 13 January 1970
Commissioned: 31 July 1971
Decommissioned: 15 April 1996
Stricken: 1999
Homeport: Sasebo
Identification: Pennant number: DE-215
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type: Chikugo-class destroyer escort
Displacement: 1,700–1,800 long tons (1,727–1,829 t) full load
Length: 93.0 m (305.1 ft)
Beam: 10.8 m (35 ft)
Draught: 3.5 m (11 ft)
Depth: 7.0 metres (23.0 ft)
Propulsion:
Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range: 5,500 nmi (10,200 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement: 165
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • TDS-1 Target Designation System
  • OPS-14 2D air search radar
  • OPS-17 surface search radar
  • FCS-1B gun FCS
  • OQS-3A bow sonar
  • SQS-35(J) VDS
  • SFCS-4 Underwater Battery FCS
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • NOLR-1B ESM
  • NOLR-5 ESM
Armament:

Development and design

Chikugo-class was designed as the modified variant of the Isuzu class, the preceding destroyer escort class. The main anti-submarine weapon was changed from the M/50 375 mm (14.8 in) ASW rocket launcher to the ASROC Anti-submarine missile. The octuple launcher for ASROC was stationed at the mid-deck, and the entire ship design was prescribed by this stationing.[1][2]

Construction and career

Chikugo was laid down on 9 December 1968 at Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding, Tamano and launched on 13 January 1970. She's commissioned on 31 July 1971.

On 26 August 1971, the 34th Escort Corps was newly commissioned under the Sasebo District Force, and was incorporated with JDS Mikuma commissioned on the same day.

Removed from the register on 15 April 1995. Since commissioning, she has consistently belonged to the Sasebo District Force for about 26 years, and has a total range of 503,405.1 nautical miles (about three and a half laps of the earth).[3]

References
  1. Abe, Yasuo (May 2003). "Looking back on Chikugo class escort vessels". Ships of the World (in Japanese). Kaijinn-sha (610): 92–97.
  2. Abe, Yasuo (May 2003). "Looking back on Chikugo class escort vessels". Ships of the World (in Japanese). Kaijinn-sha (610): 92–97.
  3. SHIPS OF THE WORLD, Special Edition 66th Maritime Self-Defense Force All Ship History. Gaijinsha. 2004.
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