JS Chikuma
History
Japan
Name
  • Chikuma
  • (ちくま)
NamesakeChikuma (1938)
Ordered1989
BuilderHitachi, Osaka
Laid down14 February 1991
Launched25 January 1992
Commissioned24 February 1993
HomeportOminato
Identification
StatusActive
General characteristics
Class and typeAbukuma-class destroyer escort
Displacement
  • 2,000 tons standard
  • 2,550 tons full load
Length357 ft (109 m)
Beam44 ft (13 m)
Draft12 ft (3.7 m)
Propulsion
Speed27 knots (50 km/h)
Complement120
Sensors and
processing systems		FCS-2
Armament

JS Chikuma (DE-233) is the fifth ship of the Abukuma-class destroyer escorts. She was commissioned on 24 February 1993.[1]

Construction and career

Chikuma was laid down at Hitachi Zosen Corporation Osaka Shipyard on 14 February 1991 and launched on 25 January 1992. She was commissioned on 24 February 1993 and deployed to Maizuru.[2]

The Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Perth and the frigate HMAS Canberra, which docked at Maizuru from October 29 to November 3, 1993, hosted the escort ship JS Abukuma.

On June 13, 2000, she was transferred to the 25th Escort Corps of the Ominato District Force in place of the training ship JS Akigumo, and her homeport was transferred from Maizuru to Mutsu.

From May 11 to May 15, 2012, she and the French Navy information gathering ship Dupuy de Lôme participated in exercises at Hakodate Port.

At around 15:40 on November 22, 2018, she was firing her high-performance Phalanx CIWS cannon on the deck about 130 km off Kumejima, Okinawa Prefecture, heavy seas caused the misfire of 21 rounds. The still live ammunition was dropped into the sea, and there were no injuries.[3]

Citations

  1. ↑ Takao, Ishibashi (2002). All Maritime Self-Defense Force Ships 1952-2002. Namiki Shobo.
  2. ↑ World Ships Special Edition 66th Collection Maritime Self-Defense Force All Ship History. Gaijinsha. 2004.
  3. ↑ Chunichi, Shimbun (23 November 2018). "21 live ammunition dropped from the sea ship, off Kume Island, risk of explosion".

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