JDS Wakaba
WWII-ERA JAPANESE ESCORT DESTROYER
Japanese destroyer Nashi (Type D); Japanese destroyer Nashi (1945); JDS Wakaba (DE-261)
JDS Wakaba was the former Imperial Japanese Navy ship Nashi, an escort destroyer of the Tachibana sub-class of the 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 1972-73.