JDS Wakaba (DE-261)

History
Japan
Name:	JDS Wakaba
Builder:	Kawasaki, Kobe
Laid down:	1 September 1944
Launched:	17 January 1945
Commissioned:	15 March 1945 as Nashi
Fate:	Sunk, 28 July 1945 Salvaged, 1955
Recommissioned:	31 May 1956, as JDS Wakaba
Refit:	1958 (weapons & radar) 1960 (sonar)
Struck:	31 March 1971
Fate:	Scrapped, 1972–73
General characteristics
Class and type:	Tachibana-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,250 t (1,230 long tons)
Length:	100 m (328 ft 1 in)
Beam:	9.35 m (30 ft 8 in)
Draft:	3.28 m (10 ft 9 in)
Propulsion:	2 × Kampon Type 3 mod C turbines, 15,000 PS (11,000 kW) 2 × Kampon Type 3 mod B2 boilers
Speed:	26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph)
Complement:	175
Sensors and processing systems:	Radar (added 1958) : Mk34 Fire Control AN/SPS-5B C Band SS AN/SPS-12 L Band AS AN/SPS-8B S Band Heightfinder (added 1960) Sonar (added 1960) : AN/SQR-4/SQA-4 AN/SQS-11A
Armament:	(All added in 1958) Mk.63 GFCS 2 × Type 68/Mk.33 3"/50 caliber guns 1 × Type 54/Mk.10 Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 4 × Type 54/Mk.6 K-Guns 2 × Type 54 Depth charge rack

JDS Wakaba was the former Imperial Japanese Navy ship Nashi, a Tachibana-class destroyer. Nashi was sunk in July 1945, but salvaged in 1954 and refitted to join the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force in 1956 as Wakaba, later being utilised as a radar trials ship.

The Tachibana sub-class was a simplified version of the preceding Matsu class to make them even more suited for mass production. The ships measured 100 meters (328 ft 1 in) overall, with a beam of 9.35 meters (30 ft 8 in) and a draft of 3.37 meters (11 ft 1 in). They displaced 1,309 metric tons (1,288 long tons) at standard load and 1,554 metric tons (1,529 long tons) at deep load.

The ships had two Kampon geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by two Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were rated at a total of 19,000 shaft horsepower (14,000 kW) for a designed speed of 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph). They had a range of 4,680 nautical miles (8,670 km; 5,390 mi) at a speed of 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph).

The main armament of the Tachibana sub-class consisted of three Type 89 127-millimeter (5.0 in) dual purpose guns in one twin-gun mount aft and one single mount forward of the superstructure. They carried a total of twenty-four Type 96 25-millimeter (1.0 in) anti-aircraft guns in four triple and a dozen single mounts. The ships were also armed with four 610-millimeter (24.0 in) torpedo tubes in a single quadruple traversing mount and 60 depth charges.

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