JDS ''Natsushio'' (SS-523) was the

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of the s. She was commissioned on 29 June 1963.

Construction and career

''Natsushio'' was

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Shipyard on 5 December 1961 and launched on 18 September 1962. She was commissioned on 29 June 1963. On 1 February 1965, the 1st Submarine was reorganized into the 1st Submarine Group, which was newly formed under the Self-Defense Fleet. From 8 June to 23 August of the same year, she deployed to

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to participate in dispatch training with . Along the way, on 15 July, a

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broke in a collision with an uninhabited cargo ship in the waters south of

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. The submarine was removed from the naval register on 20 March 1978.

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