ROCS Kee Lung (DDG-1801)

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Career

Yard:	Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Awarded:	March 23, 1978
Laid down:	June 26, 1978
Launched:	August 11, 1979
Commissioned:	December 17, 2005
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Active in service as of 2006.
General Characteristics
Displacement:	9,783 tons full
Length:	171.6 m (563 ft)
Beam:	16.8 m (55 ft)
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 80,000 shp total
Speed:	33 knots (61 km/h)
Complement:	? officers ? enlisted
Armament:	2 × Mark 26 Standard missile launchers 2 × Mark 141 quad launcher with 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon 2 × Mark 15 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mark 45 5 in (127 mm) 54 cal gun 2 × Mark 32 triple tube mounts with 6 × Mark 46 torpedoes 1 × Mark 112 ASROC launcher
Sensors:	AN/SPS-48E air search radar SPG-60 gun fire control radar SPS-55 surface search radar SPQ-9A gun fire control radar SQS-53 sonar SLQ-32(V)3 Outboard II
Aircraft:	2 × S-70C(N) Sea Hawks

ROCS Kee Lung (基隆, DDG-1801) is the leading vessel of Kee Lung class guided-missile destroyer currently in active service of Republic of China Navy. Kee Lung was formerly USS Scott (DDG-995), which was the third United States Navy Kidd class destroyer and was decommissioned by the U.S. in 1998. For a period of time Kee Lung was tentatively named Chi Teh (紀德), which is the transliteration of Kidd into Chinese, but it was later decided to name her after the port of Kee Lung, an important military port in northern Taiwan.

Kee Lung is also the only one of the four sister ships to be equipped with LAMPS III system, enables it to carry up to two S-70C(N) Sea Hawks helicopters for anti-submarine warfare.

Kee Lung, along with her three sister ships, is the largest destroyer and second largest ship in displacement ever in Republic of China Navy service, only smaller than ROCS Hsu Hai (旭海, LSD-193) dock landing ship. She was re-fitted for service in the ROCN at Denton's Shipyard in North Charleston, South Carolina. She was formally commissioned on December 17, 2005 along with her sister ship ROCS Su Ao (蘇澳, DDG-1802), formerly USS Callaghan (DDG-994).