Akebono class destroyer escort

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The Akebono class destroyer escort (or frigate) of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force is the first post World War II Japanese indigenous frigate class, and its primary task is ASW. It is also called B Type escort and it is compared by 9B Type escort (Ikazuchi class destroyer escort). JMSDF chose Ikazuchi class. Only a single unit was built.

• Displacement: 1075t standard; 1350t full load
• Armament
  • 2 3 in/50 main guns
  • 4 40 mm anti-aircraft guns
  • 1 hedgehog
  • 8 DCT (K-guns)
  • 1 Depth charge rack
• Complement: 193

• Laid down: 1954
• Launched: October 30, 1955
• Comissioned: 1956
• Decomissioned: 1976
• Stricken: 1981

Combatant ship classes of the JMSDF

DDH : Destroyer Helicopter	Haruna class | Shirane class | 13500t class
DDG : Guided Missile Destroyer	Amatsukaze | Tachikaze class | Hatakaze class | Kongō class | Atago class
DD : Destroyer	Asakaze (Gleaves) class | Ariake (Fletcher) class | Harukaze class | Akizuki class | Hatsuyuki class | Asagiri class | Murasame class | Takanami class | 5000t class
DDA : All Purpose Destroyer	Murasame class (1958) | Takatsuki class
DDK : Anti Submarine Destroyer	Ayanami class | Yamagumo class | Minegumo class
DE : Destroyer Escort	Asahi (Cannon) class | Ikazuchi class | Akebono | Wakaba | Isuzu class | Chikugo class | Ishikari | Yubari class | Abukuma class
PF : Patrol Frigate	Kusu (Tacoma) class
SS : Submarine	Kuroshio (1955) (Gato class) | Oyashio (SS-511) | Hayashio class | Natsushio class | Oshio | Asashio class | Uzushio class | Yushio class | Harushio class | Oyashio class |2900t class
List	List of combatant ship classes of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force List of ships of the Japanese Navy