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JDS Arashio (SS-565)
File:Arashio SS 565.jpeg
JDS Arashio in Pearl Harbor on 1 April 1984
Career (Japan)
Name:
  • Arashio
  • (あらしお)
Namesake: Arashio (1937)
Ordered: 1966
Builder: Mitsubishi, Kobe
Laid down: 5 July 1967
Launched: 24 October 1968
Commissioned: 25 July 1969
Decommissioned: 27 March 1986
Identification:
Fate: Scrapped, 1989
General characteristics
Class & type: Asashio-class submarine
Displacement:
  • 1,650 long tons (1,676 t) surfaced
  • 2,250 long tons (2,286 t) submerged
Length: 88 m (288 ft 9 in)
Beam: 8.2 m (26 ft 11 in)
Draft: 4.9 m (16 ft 1 in)
Depth: 7.5 m (24 ft 7 in)
Propulsion:
  • Diesel-electric, 2 shafts
  • 2,900 bhp (2,200 kW) (surfaced)
  • 6,300 shp (4,700 kW) (submerged)
Speed:
  • 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) surfaced
  • 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) submerged
  • Complement: 80
    Armament: 8 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (6 × bow-tube, 2 × stern-tube)

    JDS Arashio (SS-565) was the fourth boat of theAsashio-class submarines. She was commissioned on 25 July 1969.[1][2]

    Construction and career[]

    Harushio was laid down at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard on 5 July 1967 and launched on 24 October 1968. She was commissioned on 25 July 1969, into the 1st Submarine Group Joined the 2nd Submarine.

    Participated in Hawaii dispatch training from September 6 to November 24, 1972,

    On 27 March 1985, she became flagship of the 1st Submarine Group.

    She was decommissioned on 27 March 1986 and scrapped by Furusawa Steel in 1989.[3]

    Gallery[]

    Citations[]

    1. Takao, Ishibashi (2002). 海上自衛隊全艦船 1952-2002. Japan: 並木書房. 
    2. 世界の艦船 増刊第665集 海上自衛隊潜水艦史. Japan: 海人社. 2006. 
    3. 世界の艦船 増刊第66集 海上自衛隊全艦艇史. Japan: 海人社. 2004. 


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