JS Akebono (DD-108)

JS Akebono (DD-108) is the eighth ship of Murasame-class destroyers. She was commissioned on 19 March 2002.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see Japanese destroyer Akebono.

JS Akebono at Pearl Harbor in 2010
History
Japan
Name:
  • Akebono
  • (いかづち)
Namesake: Akebono (1955)
Ordered: 1997
Builder: IHI Corporation, Tokyo
Laid down: 29 October 1999
Launched: 25 September 2000
Commissioned: 19 March 2002
Homeport: Kure
Identification:
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class and type: Murasame-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 4,550 tons standard,
  • 6,200 tons hull load
Length: 151 m (495 ft 5 in)
Beam: 17.4 m (57 ft 1 in)
Draft: 5.2 m (17 ft 1 in)
Propulsion:
Speed: 30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h)
Complement: 165
Sensors and
processing systems:
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 × SH-60J/K anti-submarine helicopter

Construction and career

Akebono was laid down on October 29, 1999 at IHI Corporation Tokyo as the 1997 plan and launched on September 25, 2000. Commissioned on March 19, 2002, was incorporated into the 4th Escort Corps of the 4th Escort Corps and deployed to Kure.

In June 2019, it was decided to additionally participate in the 2019 Indo-Pacific dispatch training in which the escort vessels JS Izumo and JS Murasame are participating. Conduct joint training with the navies of each country in the Indo-Pacific region during the dispatch.[2]

  • JS Akebono leaving Pearl Harbor on 6 July 2010.
  • JS Akebono and USS Lake Erie on 14 July 2010.
  • JS Akebono underway on 14 July 2010.
  • JS Akebono underway on 14 July 2010.
  • JS Akebono, JS Murasame and JS Izumo on 26 July 2019.

Citations
  1. "DD-101 Murasame Class". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  2. https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/201906/20190605.pdf

References
  • Saunders, Stephen. IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2013-2014. Jane's Information Group (2003). ISBN 0710630484
  • Heihachiro Fujiki (August 2003). "Development of multi-purpose DDs for "8-8 escort flotilla". Ships of the World (in Japanese). Kaijinn-sha (614): 94–99.


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