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ARIAKE destroyers (1944 / 1959)

Ariake 1959

Yugure 1965

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

  

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

 

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.

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