JS Isoshio (SS-594) is the fifth boat of the s built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. She was commissioned on 14 March 2002.
With 24 years of active service, Isoshio is the oldest Oyashio-class boat still in active service, the other four all having been reassigned as training vessels or decommissioned.
Construction and career Isoshio was laid down at Kawasaki Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard on 9 March 1998 and launched on 27 November 2000. She was commissioned on 14 March 2002 and deployed to Kure.
On 30 July 2003, she left Kure for RIMPAC 2003 in the United States and returned to Kure in late October.
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