ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803)
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.jpg/300px-USS_Kidd_(DDG-993).jpg) ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803), then USS Kidd (DDG-993) |
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| Career (USA) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | Kidd |
| Launched: | 11 August 1979 |
| Commissioned: | 27 June 1981 |
| Decommissioned: | 12 March 1998 |
| Struck: | 12 March 1998 |
| Fate: | Sold to Taiwan, 30 May 2003 |
| Career (Taiwan) |  |
| Name: | Tso Ying |
| Acquired: | 30 May 2003 |
| Commissioned: | 3 November 2006 |
| Status: | Active in service as of 2008 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 7,289 tons standard |
| Length: | 171.6 m (563 ft) |
| Beam: | 16.8 m (55 ft) |
| Draft: | 9.6 m (31.5 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 80,000 shp total (60 MW) |
| Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
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 |
| Armament: |
2 × Mark 26 launchers
2 × Mark 141 quad launcher
2 × Mark 45 5 in (127 mm) gun 2 × Mark 32 triple tube mounts with 6 × Mark 46 torpedoes 1 × Mark 112 ASROC launcher |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 × SH-3 Sea King or 2 × SH-2 Seasprite |
ROCS Tso Ying (左營, DDG-1803) is a Kee Lung-class (formerly Kidd class in U.S. service) guided-missile destroyer currently in active service of Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy. It was formally commissioned at Suao Naval Base in northeastern Taiwan on November 3, 2006 along with its sister ship the ROCS Ma Kong (DDG-1805). Tso Ying is named after the largest naval base in Taiwan, the Tso Ying Naval Base in Tsoying District, Kaohsiung City at southern Taiwan. The Tso Ying Naval Base is also the location of the Republic of China's naval academy and fleet headquarters.
The DDG-1803, formerly the Kidd (DDG-993), was sold by the United States to the Republic of China in 2004 and originally planned to be named Chi The, which is the transliteration of "Kidd" into Chinese.
[edit] External links
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
- Navysite.de: USS Kidd
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