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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
ありあけ [Ariake] (ex-Heywood L. Edwards)	DD183		Boston N Yd, Charlestown, USA	7.1943	6.10.1943	1/1944 // 10.3.1959	deleted 3.1974
ゆうぐれ [Yugure] (ex-Richard P. Leary)	DD184		Boston N Yd, Charlestown, USA	7/1943	6.10.1943	2/1944 // 10.3.1959	deleted 3.1974

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2050
Displacement full, t	2900
Length, m	112.5 wl 114.7 oa
Breadth, m	12.1
Draught, m	4.19 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	60000
Max speed, kts	38
Fuel, t	oil 492
Endurance, nm(kts)	6500 (15)
Armament	4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 5 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 6 DCT, 2 DCR (56)
Electronic equipment	SG, SR, Mk 12.22 radars, QCJ sonar
Complement	273

Standard scale images

Project history

Former USN Fletcher class destroyers

Modernizations

1963, Ariake: bridge was improved, larger CIC was built, pole mast was replaced by tripod; - 1 x 1 - 127/38 (No2), 2 x 2 - 40/60, SG, SR, Mk 12.22 radars; + 2 - 483 TT, 1 x 1 - 324 Mk 108 Weapon Alfa ASWRL, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 15 ASWRL, OPS-1, OPS-15, SPG-34 radars

1963, Yugure: bridge was improved, larger CIC was built, pole mast was replaced by tripod; - 2 x 2 - 40/60, SG, SR, Mk 12.22 radars; + 2 - 483 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 15 ASWRL, OPS-1, OPS-15, SPG-34 radars

Naval service

No significant events.