JS Makishio
Oyashio-class submarines
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JS Makishio (hull number SS-593) is the fourth boat of the Oyashio-class submarines built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. She was commissioned on 29 March 2001.[1] After 22 years of active service as an attack submarine, Makashio was reassigned as a training vessel on 17 March 2023.
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JS Makishio | |
| History | |
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| Name |
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| Namesake | 薪塩 ("firewood & salt") |
| Ordered | 1996 |
| Builder | Mitsubishi, Kobe |
| Cost | ¥52.19 million |
| Laid down | 6 March 1996 |
| Launched | 26 November 1998 |
| Commissioned | 29 March 2001 |
| Reclassified | 17 March 2023 (as training vessel) |
| Home port | Kure |
| Identification | Pennant number: TSS-[clarification needed] |
| Status | Active as training submarine |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Oyashio-class submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 81.7 m (268 ft 1 in) |
| Beam | 8.9 m (29 ft 2 in) |
| Draught | 7.4 m (24 ft 3 in) |
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| Complement | 70 (10 officers) |
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Construction and career
Makishio was laid down at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard on 6 March 1996 and launched on 26 November 1998. She was commissioned on 9 March 2000[dubious – discuss] and deployed to Yokosuka.[2][3]
On 6 August 2008, she left Kure for Hawaii for the major naval exercise RIMPAC 2008, and she returned to Kure on 12 November.[citation needed]
The submarine participated in RIMPAC 2019 from 30 March to 29 June 2019, and she conducted offshore training and facility use training in the Hawaiian Islands area.[4]
Upon Oyashio's decommissioning on 17 March 2023, Makishio was converted to a training submarine as a replacement.[5]
Gallery
JS Makishio's sail
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