JDS Natsushio
History
Japan
Name
  • Natsushio
  • (なつしお)
Ordered1987
BuilderKawasaki, Kobe
Laid down8 April 1988
Launched20 March 1990
Commissioned20 March 1991
Decommissioned26 March 2010
HomeportKure
IdentificationPennant number: SS-584
FateScrapped, 2011
General characteristics
Class and typeHarushio-class submarine
Displacement
  • Surface: 2,450 tonnes
  • Submerged: 3,200 tonnes
Length77.0 m (252 ft 7 in)
Beam10 m (32 ft 10 in)
Draft7.7 m (25 ft 3 in)
Propulsion
Speed
  • Surfaced: 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
  • Submerged: 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement75
Sensors and
processing systems
  • Hughes/Oki ZQQ 5B Sonar
  • ZQR 1 towed array
  • JRC ZPS 6 I-band search radar
Armament

JS Natsushio (SS-584) was the second ship of theHarushio-class submarine of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

Development and design

This type is a teardrop type ship type, a so-called SSS (Single Screw Submarine) type with a single-axis propulsion system, and the structural style is a complete double-shell structure, following the method since the Uzushio-class (42SS) in the basic design concept . Meanwhile, the type, dual vibration-damping support of the anti-vibration support or main engine of the main motor, the auxiliary equipment and pipe systems, static power supply, and rectification of the hole opening on the bottom of the ship. Through these efforts, it was decided that the masker sound insulation device was unnecessary, and in the latter model of this model, it was so quiet that it would not be detected even if snorkeling was continued until the sonobuoy was visible.[1]

Construction and career

Natsushio was laid down at Kawasaki Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard on 8 April 1988 as the 1987 plan 2400-ton submarine No. 8099 and it was launched on 20 March 1990. She was commissioned on 20 March 1991 and homeported in Kure. She belonged to the 5th Submarine of the 1st Submarine Group.[2]

She participated in the RIMPAC 1996.

On 3 August 1997, she sank the target ship JDS Nagatsuki north of Wakasa Bay.[3]

On 8 May 2000, her and JS Kongō left Kure to participated in RIMPAC 2000 which took place from 30 May until 6 July.

She took part in RIMPAC 2002.

She was decommissioned on 26 March 2010. She also participated in 10 Maritime Self-Defense Force exercises and 8 simulated combat trainings between submarines.[4] She was scrapped in Etajima in 2011.

Citations

  1. ↑ 正男, 小林 (November 2009). "From Uzushio to Soryu: Development of Japanese submarine". 世界の艦船 (713): 75–81.
  2. ↑ "DSI 海自現有艦艇一覧". 1 December 2008. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "ニュース・フラッシュ (世界の艦船)". 海人社. Vol. 531. November 1997. p. 64.
  4. ↑ Mainichi Shimbun March 28, morning edition.

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