ROCS Yueh Fei (FFG-1106)

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Career
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Ordered:
Laid down:	5 September 1992
Launched:	26 August 1994
Commissioned:	February 1996
Status:	Active in service as of 2007.
Homeport:	Tsoying
General Characteristics
Displacement:	4,200 tons full
Length:	139 m (454 ft) overall
Beam:	13.7 m (45 ft)
Draft:	5.7 m (19 ft)
Propulsion:	2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) through a single shaft and controllable-pitch propeller
Speed:	29+ knots (54+ km/h)
Range:	5,000 nmi. at 18 knots (9,300 km at 33 km/h)
Complement:	235
Armament:	• 8 × Hsiung Feng II SSM; 1 × Mk 13 Mod 4 single-arm launcher for Harpoon anti-ship missiles and Standard anti-ship/air missiles (40 round magazine); • 1 × OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun; • 2 × Mk 32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes; • 2 × 40 mm/70 AA guns; • 1 × Vulcan Phalanx CIWS; • 3 × 20 mm guns.
Aircraft:	2 × SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters

ROCS Yueh Fei (岳飛, FFG-1106), is a Cheng Kung-class guided-missile frigate of the Republic of China Navy. Yueh Fei was laid down on 5 September 1992 by the China SB Corp., in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, launched on 26 August 1994, and commissioned in February 1996. She is the fourth ship of the Cheng Kung-class frigates.

As of 2005, Yueh Fei is home ported at ROCN Tso-Ying naval base.

[edit] Namesake

Yueh Fei is named after Yueh Fei (岳飛) (1103–1142), who was a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty. He was famous for leading numerous successful defenses of the Southern Song Dynasty against invasions of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty from north.