JDS Uranami

	Uranami as seen on 28 October 1965.
History
Japan
Name	Uranami; (うらなみ);
Ordered	1955
Builder	Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Laid down	1 February 1957
Launched	29 August 1957
Commissioned	27 February 1958
Recommissioned	30 March 1983 (as an auxiliary vessel)
Decommissioned	25 December 1986
Reclassified	30 March 1983 (as an auxiliary vessel)
Homeport	Yokosuka
General characteristics
Class and type	Ayanami-class destroyer
Displacement	1,720 t (1,690 long tons) standard; 2,500 t (2,500 long tons) full load;
Length	109 m (357 ft 7 in)
Beam	10.7 m (35 ft 1 in)
Depth	8.1 m (26 ft 7 in)
Complement	220
Armament	6 × 3"/50 caliber Mk.22 guns; 4 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes; 2 × ASW torpedo racks; 2 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortars; 2 × DCT (K-guns);

Uranami (浦波, "Shore Wave") was the third of seven Ayanami-class destroyers, built for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) following World War II. The ship was the third destroyer of to be named so, following the World War I-era Kamikaze-class Uranami (1907), and the World War II-era Fubuki-class Uranami (1928).

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