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JAPAN MARITIME SELF-DEFENSE FORCE (JAPAN)

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TESHIO medium patrol vessel (1995)

Teshio 2000

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
てしお [Teshio] PM15   NKK, Tsurumi 7.10.1994 20.4.1995 19.10.1995 in service (2019)

 

Displacement standard, t

563

Displacement normal, t

883

Length, m

54.9

Breadth, m

10.2 wl 10.6 oa

Draught, m

3.30 mean 4.00 max

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.

3600

Max speed, kts

14.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 3 - 20/76 JM-61-MB Sea Vulcan

Electronic equipment

2x JMA radars

Complement

35

Project history: Icebreaking hull with 5.0m molded depth; able to break 75cm ice by ramming and 55cm ice at 3kts continuous. Hullform is unusual tor an icebreaking hull in having a hard chine amidships and single-curvature hullform over most of the middle portion of the hull. A television surveillance camera is fitted atop the pilothouse.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Teshio 2002

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