JS Shimakaze
Hatakaze-class guided missile destroyer
JS Shimakaze (DDG-172/TV-3521) is the second ship of the Hatakaze-class guided missile destroyers built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). The ship was reclassified as a training ship in 2021.
01Construction and career
Shimakaze was laid down on the 13 January 1985 at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard in Nagasaki. She was launched on 30 January 1987 and commissioned on 23 March 1988.
On 23 November 2017, Shimakaze, along with JS Kaga, Ise, Teruzuki, and Samidare, participated in the search and rescue of a crashed C-2A Greyhound from the United States Navy 7th Fleet.
HMCS Ottawa, JS Chōkai, and Shimakaze participated in a bilateral exercise between the Royal Canadian Navy and the JMSDF on 16 October 2019.
On 30 March 2020, Shimakaze was damaged in a collision with a Chinese fishing vessel in the East China Sea.
Shimakaze was converted to a training ship and redesignated as TV-3521 on 19 March 2021.
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- DDG-172 04l.jpg by https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/, CC BY 4.0
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