JDS Wakaba - The Last IJN Destroyer (in Japan)

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Originally named Nashi, the patrol ship JDS Wakaba had an interesting life. A short career as a destroyer of the IJN, before being sunk towards the end of WW2. She would be salvaged in 1954, and promptly repaired and refit for renewed service.
In the process becoming the one and only IJN warship to serve in the Maritime Self Defense Force.
Further Reading:
www.amazon.com/Warships-Imper...
www.amazon.com/Chronology-War...
www.combinedfleet.com/nashi_t.htm
web.archive.org/web/201502070... (Japanese Language)

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10 апр 2024

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@Tempestzzzz 2 месяца назад

9 years soaked in salt water and salvageable for use! WOW!

@genericpersonx333 2 месяца назад

Seems the best argument for why the Japanese opted to reclaim this old wreck rather than take a relatively new ship from the USA was because they wanted something faster than a destroyer-escort, but smaller than the fleet destroyers the USA had available, and the Nashi just happened, as a Tachibana, to fit the bill.

@DaveSCameron 2 месяца назад

Or perhaps nostalgia for what they dreamed about…

@davidmurphy8190 2 месяца назад

This report was great. At least this ship was not forgotten.

@gothicalpha 2 месяца назад

But did it survive against Shin Godzilla?

@JGCR59 2 месяца назад

I wonder if Nashi/Wakaba had the same luck as U-2540/Wilhelm Bauer in that the shallow water meant a combination of mud from the outside and spilled fuel oil on the inside acted basically as a preservative for most machinery

@jonathanlong6987 2 месяца назад

Fun(?) fact. IJS ships names on hulls read right to left as in pre-WW2 Japanese writing. “Wakaba” reads left to right as in postwar, westernized convention. The 3 “letters” are syllables: wa-ka-ba.

@JoshuaTootell 2 месяца назад

Like KYB shocks

@michaelinsc9724 2 месяца назад

Absolutely fantastic! Had not heard of this and it was fascinating. Well done!

@JGCR59 2 месяца назад

Hatszakura is the most photographed of this class because she carried the japanese delegation to USS Missouri at the signing of the surrender

@bruceferguson6637 2 месяца назад

Sort of a shame she wasn’t kept on as a museum ship, though her war record was unremarkable.

@pizzaivlife 2 месяца назад

some of our best museumships had unremarkable carreers- I'm looking at USS Alabama here- excellent museum, not much of a service history in WWII

@soheiyamaguchi928 8 дней назад

The engine is displayed at museum in JMSDF Camp Takeyama.

@lordwintertown8284 2 месяца назад

Funny I was just speaking to someone about this ship two days back & bam here's a video, Thanks Skynea History for this & thank insomnia for keeping me up this long... Hm I didn't realise the dual 3"/50 Mk. 22 cannons were fitted only to the stern, I must have read the specifications incorrectly.

@mbryson2899 2 месяца назад

These accounts of the obscure keep me coming back! Thank you, and nicely done.

@JGCR59 2 месяца назад

The Bundesmarine had more Kriegsmarine ships though of a lower class: 9 steam minesweepers of the 35 and 43 types, two dozen R-Boats, a few S-Boats and 3 U-Boats, of which U Wilhelm Bauer ex 2541, S-130 and probably one or two of the R-Boats still exist. The Volksmarine had a few R-Boats and there's a WW1 era small danish minelayer still being used as a clubhouse in a Marina that was captured from the Danish Navy in WW2 and never returned

@TrickiVicBB71 2 месяца назад

Think you could do a video in the future about the Kure naval raids in 1945?

@robertsartino7664 2 месяца назад

Great video and info

@user-mu8ho3tt7p 2 месяца назад

Thanks again for something I never heard of. I'm a arm chair history buff. Keep it up bud! Love ever one of your mini documentaries. Do you you have t- shirts?? If you do I would like to show them off to My friends .

@ozbassman11 2 месяца назад

Great story, thanks

@thinaphonpetsiri9907 2 месяца назад

Wait, those Quad torpedo tubes and gun are from her? I have just been to Etajima naval academy and saw those a few days ago and forgot to take a picture, too focused on 16 inches turret next to them 😂

@kfeltenberger 2 месяца назад

And they didn't even give her a wave motion gun...

@uio890138 2 месяца назад

Get episode!!

@scottcunningham9018 2 месяца назад

A minor point here: IJN Nagato was not sunken at her mooring at the end of ww2, she was in very poor shape, but she survived until the Crossroads tests.

@aslamnurfikri7640 Месяц назад

I guess he was referring to Ise, Hyuga, and Haruna

@Bonzar_Tumberson 2 месяца назад

I actually got Wakaba in Azur Lane yesterday. So it was very surprising/ironic when I saw you upload a video about her just a day later. - Also really good video.

@doomedeagle4622 2 месяца назад

That's probably the Hatsuharu class Wakaba

@Bonzar_Tumberson 2 месяца назад

@@doomedeagle4622 Ah, I see.

@DaveSCameron 2 месяца назад

Hardly worthy of being named a destroyer, more a corvette or even PT. 🇬🇧

@jonathanlong6987 2 месяца назад

OK I’m pedantic. Japanese single vowels are pronounced “a” = ah, “i” = ee, “u” = oo, “e” = eh, “o” = oh. Listed in Japanaese syllabary order. (Yes, pedantic & pretentious.)

@genericpersonx333 2 месяца назад

I think we can just claim the privilege of Gaijin to not get Japanese correct cuz we are mere barbarians. :)

@alephalon7849 2 месяца назад

I know the Japanese needed to make the most out of their limited resources, and that they're not the only ones to do this, but it's kind of silly that they keep recovering and reconstructing sunken ships like this.

@jonathanlong6987 2 месяца назад

Last, I promise. ¥345,000,000 @¥360/US$ = $958,333.33. I’m guessing this is a bargain in postwar Japan.