JDS Wakaba

Wakaba trial run in 1956
History
Japan
Name	Nashi (梨)
Builder	Kawasaki, Kobe
Laid down	1 September 1944
Launched	17 January 1945
Commissioned	15 March 1945
Fate	Sunk, 28 July 1945 Salvaged, 1955
Renamed	Wakaba (わかば)
Recommissioned	31 May 1956
Refit	1958 (weapons & radar) 1960 (sonar)
Stricken	31 March 1971
Fate	Scrapped, 1972–1973
Class overview
Preceded by	N/A
Succeeded by	Asahi class
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Tachibana sub-class of the Matsu-class escort destroyer
Displacement	1,309 t (1,288 long tons)
Length	100 m (328 ft 1 in)
Beam	9.35 m (30 ft 8 in)
Draft	3.31 m (10 ft 10 in)
Installed power	2 × water-tube boilers 19,000 PS (14,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × shafts; 2 ×geared steam turbines
Speed	26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph)
Range	4,680 nmi (8,670 km; 5,390 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement	175
Sensors and processing systems	1 × Type 22 search radar 1 × Type 13 early-warning radar (added 1958) : Mk34 Fire Control Mark 63 fire-control system AN/SPS-5B C Band SS AN/SPS-12 L Band AS AN/SPS-8B S Band Heightfinder (added 1960) Sonar (added 1960) : AN/SQR-4/SQA-4 AN/SQS-11A
Armament	1 × twin, 1 × single 127 mm (5 in) DP guns 4 × triple, 13 × single 25 mm (1 in) AA guns 1 × quadruple 610 mm (24 in) torpedo tubes 2 × rails, 2 × throwers for 60 depth charges (All added in 1958) Mk.63 GFCS 2 × Type 68/Mk.33 3"/50 caliber guns 1 × Type 54/Mk.10 Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 4 × Type 54/Mk.6 K-Guns 2 × Type 54 Depth charge rack

JDS Wakaba (DE-261) was the former Imperial Japanese Navy ship Nashi, an escort destroyer of the Tachibana sub-class of the Matsu class built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the final stages of World War II. Nashi was sunk in July 1945, but salvaged in 1954 and refitted to join the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force in 1956 as Wakaba, later being utilised as a radar trials ship, but stricken in 1971 and scrapped in 1972-1973.