JS Yūdachi (DD-103)

JS Yūdachi (DD-103) is the third ship of Murasame-class destroyers. She was commissioned on 4 March 1999.[1]

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

JS Yūdachi on 7 September 2019.
History
Japan
Name:
  • Yūdachi
  • (ゆうだち)
Namesake: Yūdachi (1958)
Ordered: 1994
Builder: Mitsui, Tamano
Laid down: 18 March 1996
Launched: 19 August 1997
Commissioned: 4 March 1999
Homeport: Ōminato
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

Yūdachi was laid down on March 18, 1996 at Sumitomo Heavy Industries Yokosuka as the 1994 plan and launched on August 19, 1997. Commissioned on March 4, 1999, was incorporated into the 6th Escort Corps of the 4th Escort Corps and deployed to Ōminato.

On March 6, 2016, as the 24th dispatched anti-piracy action surface corps, she departed from Ominato base for the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia with the escort ship JS Yugiri and returned to Ominato on September 8. In addition, on September 1, on the way back to Japan, a goodwill training was conducted with the Philippine Navy's BRP Rajah Humabon.[2][3]

Citations
  1. "DD-101 Murasame Class". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  2. https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/formal/info/news/201609/20160902-01.pdf
  3. https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2016/press_pdf/p20160224_01.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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