Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force - JMSDF

 

 

Hayashio class Submarine - SS

 

SS-521 JDS Hayashio class SS-522 Wakashio submarine japan maritime self defense force jmsdf

SS-521 JDS Hayashio

 

 

Units:

unit

laid down

launched

commissioned

decommissioned

SS 521 JDS Hayashio

June 6, 1960

July 31, 1961

June 30, 1962

June 25, 1977

SS 522 JDS Wakashio

June 7, 1960

August 28, 1961

June 30, 1962

March 23, 1979

 

NOTES:

both units were finally scrapped in 1982

 

BUILDER:

SS-521 = Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan

SS-522 = Kawasaki Shipbuilding, Kobe, Japan

 

 

Specifications:

 

Length:

59 meters

 

Beam:

6,5 meters

 

Draft:

4,1 meters

 

Displacement:

762 tons (surfaced) / 813 tons (submerged)

 

Speed:

11 knots (20 km/h) surfaced / 14 knots (26 km/h) submerged

 

Range:

9000 NM (16700 km) at 8 knots (15 km/h) on diesels

40 hrs at 3 knots (5,5 km/h) submarged on batteries

 

Crew:

43

 

Operational depth:

500 feet (152 meters) test depth

 

Propulsion:

DIESEL-ELECTRIC

2 x Mitsubishi 6LDA25B diesel engines

2 x electric-motors (2 x 120-cell lead-acid batteries)

900 bhp surfaced / 2300 shp submerged

2 shafts / 2 propellers

 

Armament:

3 x 21-inch (533mm) torpedo tubes

 

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