JS Shimakaze

JS Shimakaze (DDG-172/TV-3521) is the second ship of the Hatakaze-class destroyer guided missile destroyers built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). The ship was reclassified as training ship in 2021.

Construction 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, JS Ise, JS Teruzuki and JS Samidare participated in the search and rescue of a crashed C-2A Greyhound from the United States Navy 7th Fleet.

HMCS Ottawa (FFH 341), JS Chōkai and Shimakaze participated in a bilateral exercise between the Royal Canadian Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 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 training ship and redesignated as TV-3521 on 19 March 2021.