JDS Chihaya
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.jpg) JDS Chihaya | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Preceded by | N/A |
| Succeeded by | Fushimi class |
| History | |
 Japan | |
| Name |
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| Namesake | Chihaya |
| Ordered | 1959 |
| Builder | Mitsubishi, Tokyo |
| Laid down | 15 March 1960 |
| Launched | 4 October 1960 |
| Commissioned | 15 March 1961 |
| Decommissioned | 28 February 1989 |
| Homeport | Kure |
| Identification | Pennant number: ASR-401, ASU-7011 |
| Status | Decommissioned |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Submarine rescue ship |
| Displacement | 1,340–1,850 long tons (1,362–1,880 t) full load |
| Length | 73.0 m (239 ft 6 in) |
| Beam | 12.0 m (39 ft 4 in) |
| Draft | 3.9 m (12 ft 10 in) |
| Depth | 6.7 m (22 ft 0 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 2 x 9 m (30 ft) boats |
| Complement | 90 |
| Sensors & processing systems |
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JDS Chihaya (ASR-401) was a submarine rescue ship of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) did not own a submarine at the time of its inauguration, but in January 1955, it was announced that a submarine would be rented as an addition to the Japan-US Ship Lending Agreement signed in May 1954. The Gato-class submarine USS Mingo was transferred to Japan and was recommissioned as JDS Kuroshio. The JMSDF had been researching rescue ships from other countries, conscious of the need for rescue ships that can handle incidents from the time of acquisition of the submarine, but the first domestically produced ship JDS Oyashio. The construction of one ship was approved in the 1959 plan when (31SS) was under construction and Chihaya was ordered.[1]
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