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Harukaze 1979

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
はるかぜ [Harukaze]	DD101, 3.1981- ASU7002		Mitsubishi Zosen, Nagasaki	15.12.1954	20.9.1955	26.4.1956	TS 3.1981, stricken 3.1985
ゆきかぜ [Yukikaze]	DD102, 3.1981- ASU7003		Shin Mitsubishi HI, Kobe	17.12.1954	20.8.1955	31.7.1956	TS 3.1981, stricken 3.1985

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1700
Displacement full, t	2340
Length, m	106.0 wl 106.3 oa
Breadth, m	10.5
Draught, m	3.70 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	DD101: 2 sets Mitsubishi/Escher Weiss geared steam turbines, 2 Hitachi/Babcock boilers DD102: 2 sets Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 2 Combustion Engineering boilers
Power, h. p.	30000
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	oil 557
Endurance, nm(kts)	6000(18)
Armament	3 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 4 - 40/60 Mk 2, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 8 DCT, 1 DCR
Electronic equipment	SPS-5, SPS-6, SPG-26, SPG-34 radars, SQS-29 sonar
Complement	240

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Project history

The Harukaze class was authorized under the 1953 fiscal year programme as 'A type' high-speed escort vessels. The class were conservative in size and armament, and electric welding was extensively used in hull construction. As with the destroyer escorts built under the 1953 programme, different propulsion plants were used for study purpose.

Modernizations 3.

1959, both: + 2 - 483 Mk 4 TT

early 1970s, both: - SPS-5 radar, SQS-29 sonar; + OPS-37 radar, SQS-11 sonar

1975, Yukikaze: - 1 x 1 - 127/38, 4 DCT, 1 DCR,; + SQS-30J sonar with towed passive sonar array

1980, Yukikaze: - 1 x 1 - 127/38 (No2), 1 x 4 - 40/60; + SQA-4 sonar

Naval service

Both were reclassified as Special Use Auxiliaries in 1985 and transferred to Fleet Training and Development Command.