JDS Harukaze (DD-101)

For other ships with the same name, see Japanese destroyer Harukaze (1922).

Harukaze in 2000 Harukaze in 2000
History
Japan
Name:	Harukaze (DD-101/ASU-7002)
Builder:	Mitsubishi, Nagasaki
Laid down:	15 December 1954
Launched:	20 September 1955
Commissioned:	26 April 1956
Decommissioned:	5 March 1985
Reclassified:	Auxiliary vessel ASU-7002, 27 March 1981
General characteristics
Class & type:	Harukaze-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,700 long tons (1,727 t) standard 2,340 long tons (2,378 t) full load
Length:	106 m (347 ft 9 in)
Beam:	10.5 m (34 ft 5 in)
Draught:	3.7 m (12 ft 2 in)
Propulsion:	2 × steam turbines, 30,000 shp (22,371 kW), 2 shafts
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range:	6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi)
Complement:	240
Armament:	3 × Mark 12 5"/38 caliber guns 4 × twin Bofors 40 mm autocannon 8 × K-gun depth charge launchers 2 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortars

JDS Harukaze (春風, "Spring Wind") was the lead ship in her class of anti-submarine ships, and the first destroyer of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force to be built in Japan since the end of World War II.

Ship history

The ship was laid down at the Mitsubishi shipyard in Nagasaki on 15 December 1954, launched on 20 September 1955 and commissioned on 26 April 1956 with the hull number "DD-101". She was reclassified as an auxiliary vessel and renumbered "ASU-7002" on 27 March 1981, before being finally decommissioned on 5 March 1985.