JDS Teruzuki

History
Name	Terizuki
Builder	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Laid down	15 August 1958
Launched	24 June 1959
Commissioned	February 1960
Decommissioned	27 September 1993
Fate	Unknown
General characteristics
Class and type	Akizuki class destroyer
Displacement	2,388 long tons (2,426 t) standard 2,890 long tons (2,936 t) full load
Length	118.0 m (387 ft 2 in) length overall 115.0 m (377 ft 4 in) p/p
Beam	12.0 m (39 ft 4 in)
Draft	4.0 m (13 ft 1 in)
Propulsion	4 Mitsubishi/CE type boilers 2 Westinghouse geared turbines 2 shafts 45,000 shp (33,556 kW)
Speed	32 kn (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Complement	330
Sensors and processing systems	OPS-1 air-search radar OPS-15 surface-search radar SQS-29 sonar
Armament	• 3 × 5"/54 caliber guns in Mk.39 single mountings • 4 × 3"/50 caliber guns in Mk.33 twin mountings • 1 × Type 65 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tube quad mounting (8 torpedos) •1 × RUR-4 Weapon Alpha anti-submarine rocket launcher • 2 × hedgehog anti-submarine projector Depth charges

Terizuki' (DD-960) was a Japanese Akizuki class destroyer. It was laid down in 1958 and served as a front line warship with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force until 1986, and as an auxilary until 1993.

Design and construction

Terizuki was one of two Akizuki class destroyers ordered in 1957 by the United States for Japan as part of a military aid package. Although the two destroyers were paid for by the United States, and therefore had hull numbers under the US Navy designation sceme, with Terizuki having the hull number DD-960, they were built in Japanese shipyards to local designs.

The two destroyers were equipped as flotilla leaders, and had the same main gun armament of three American 5 inch (127 mm) 54 caliber guns as used in the previous Murasame class destroyers, with four 3 inch (76 mm) anti-aircraft guns in two twin mounts. Anti-submarine armament consisted of a Weapon Alpha anti-submarine rocket launcher, two Hedgehog anti submarine projecttors and two depth charge launchers. A single quadruple mount for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes was fitted, with a single set of reload torpedoes.

Terizuki was laid down by Mitsubishi at Kobe in Japan on 15 August 1958, launched on 24 June 1959 and commissioned on 29 February 1960.

Operational history

Terizuki was refitted between 1976 and 1977 to improve anti-submarine capabilities, with the SQS-29 hull sonar replaced by the larger and longer ranged SQS-23 system, while a variable-depth sonar was added. The obsolete Weapon Alpha launcher was replaced by a Bofors 375 mm anti-submarine launcher, with the Hedgehog lauchers replaced by two triple 12.75 in (324 mm) triple mounting for Mark 46 torpedoes.

References

• Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen (1995). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, Maryland, USA: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-132-7.