Ikazuchi class destroyer escort

RJS Ikazuchi (DE-202)

RJS Inazuma (DE-203)

The Ikazuchi-class destroyer escort was a destroyer escort (or frigate) class built for the Republic of Japan Navy (RoJN) in the late 1950s.

In the FY1953, the West Japanese government ordered three destroyer escorts, RJS Akebono (DE-208) and this class. These vessels were the first indigenous post-World War II Japanese destroyer escorts, but their propulsion systems were different because the RoJN tried to find the best way in the propulsion systems of future surface combatants. Akebono was a steam-powered vessel, but this class was diesel-powered vessels.

Specifications

• Type: Destroyer Escort
• Service Period: 1955-1983
• Characteristics:
  • Length: 295 feet (89.92 meters)
  • Beam: 30 feet (9.14 meters)
  • Draft: 10 feet 1.2 inches (3.08 meters)
  • Depth: 18 feet (5.49 meters)
  • Displacement: 1,280 tons (Standard); 1,541 tons (Full Load)
• Crew: 160
• Propulsion: 2 x diesel engines, 2 x shafts, 12,000 shp
• Range: 5,000 nautical miles (9,260 kilometers) at 16 knots (29.63 km/h)
• Speed: 26 knots (48.15 km/h)
• Sensor Suite:
  • OPS-2 Air Search RDF
  • OPS-3 Surface Search RDF
  • Type 275 Fire Control RDF on Mk.6M Director
  • QBHa Search ASDIC
  • QDA Attack ASDIC
• Armament
  • 2 x Vickers 3"/70-caliber Mk.6 naval guns
  • 4 x Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns
  • 1 x Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
  • 8 x K-gun depth charge throwers
  • 1 x Depth charge rack

Unit Run

Pennant no.	Name	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Stricken
DE-209	Ikazuchi	1954	September 6, 1955	1956	1976	1983
DE-210	Inazuma	1954	August 4, 1955	1956	1977	1983