USS Kidd (DDG-993)
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| Career (USA) |  |
|---|---|
| Class and type: | Kidd class destroyer |
| Namesake: | Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd |
| Ordered: | March 23, 1978 |
| Builder: | Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Laid down: | June 26, 1978 |
| Launched: | August 11, 1979 |
| Acquired: | May 4, 1981 |
| Commissioned: | March 27, 1981 |
| Decommissioned: | March 12, 1998 |
| Struck: | March 12, 1998 |
| Motto: | Nil Sine Magno Labore |
| Fate: | Sold to Taiwan |
| Notes: | Second ship to bear the name KIDD. The first was USS KIDD (DD 661) |
| Career (Taiwan) |  |
| Name: | Tso Ying |
| Acquired: | 30 May 2003 |
| Commissioned: | 3 November 2006 |
| Status: | Active in service as of 2008 |
| 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: | 31 officers 332 enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SPS-48E 3D air search radar AN/SPS-49 2D air search radar SPG-60 gun fire control radar AN/SPG-51 missile fire control radar AN/SPS-55 surface search radar AN/SPQ-9A gun fire control radar SQS-53 sonar |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: |
AN/SLQ-32(V)3 Outboard II |
| 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 caliber 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 |
USS Kidd (DDG-993) was the lead ship in her class of destroyers operated by the U.S. Navy. Derived from the Spruance class, these vessels were designed for air defense in hot weather. The vessel was named after Medal of Honor recipient Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who was aboard the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was the first American flag officer to die in World War II.
Originally named Kouroush, the ship was ordered by the Shah of Iran, but was undelivered when the 1979 Iranian Revolution occurred. Subsequent to this, the U.S. Navy elected to commission the Kidd class for service in the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea, as they were equipped with heavy-duty air conditioning and were also well suited to filtering sand and the results from NBC warfare. Kidd-class ships were known in the fleet informally as the "Ayatollah" or "dead admiral" class.
This is the second ship named after Admiral Kidd. The first was USS Kidd (DD-661).
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[edit] History
June 27, 1981: Commissioned in Pascagoula, MS.
December 8, 1982: Deployed to the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean under the command of CDR William J. Flanagan. While in the Mediterranean, Kidd visited the ports of Palma, Spain; Beirut, Lebanon; and Catania, Italy. She put in at the ports of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, and Mombasa, Kenya, while on station in the Indian Ocean before returning to the Mediterranean and calling on Benidorm, Spain. The deployment ended with her return to Norfolk on June 02, 1983. In September of 1983, Kidd was awarded the Battle Efficiency "E".
February 16, 1984: Kidd left Norfolk to participate in battle-readiness maneuvers as part of Operation United Effort. She returned home to Norfolk on April 29.
March 12, 1985: READEX 1-85, CDR F. P. Moosally in command. She conducted Caribbean operations from March 28 to April 6, before anchoring at Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. Following a transit of the Atlantic Ocean, she passed through the Straits of Gibraltar on April 17. While in the Mediterranean, KIDD called on the ports of Taormina, Sicily, and Gaeta and Naples, Italy.
May 30, 1985: U.S. Sixth Fleet operations in the Black Sea through June 3. Kidd cut short a port visit to Haifa, Israel, on June 16 in response to the hijacking of TWA Flight 847. She returned to Haifa on July 15 before visiting Alexandria, Egypt, and Constanta, Romania. Black Sea operations continued with the Sixth Fleet in August. Kidd called on Istanbul, Turkey, before returning to Naples, Italy. She conducted operations in the Western Mediterranean with Nimitz (CVN-68) through September. Calling on Benidorm, Spain, she then passed through the Straits of Gibraltar again on September 20. After visiting Rota, Spain, Kidd crossed the Atlantic, arriving in Norfolk and ending her deployment on October 02, 1985.
September, 1987: Awarded her third Battle Efficiency "E" while deployed as part of the Middle East Force 3-87. She departed Norfolk on June 19, 1987, returning to port on December 04 of that same year.
January 09, 1991: Departed Norfolk, bound for the Persian Gulf with USS McInerney (FFG-8) in support of Operation Desert Storm. Kidd faced several roles while operating in the Gulf, among them the location and destruction of mines and maritime interdiction force (MIF) operations. To assist in these duties, a detachment from Anti-Submarine Light Helicopter Squadron 34 (HSL-34) was embarked. The "Green Checkers" came aboard with two SH-2 helicopters which were used early on in SSSC missions — flying out beyond the visual horizon of the ship to reconnoiter all surface radar contacts. In early April, two U.S. Army OH-58 AHIPS helos were embarked, bringing the total to four aircraft embarked aboard Kidd at one time.
December, 1991: Awarded the Battle Efficiency "E" for excellence during Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
October, 1992: Counter-narcotics operations off the South American coast. She transited the Panama Canal on November 08. During this deployment, she patrolled Latin American waters as a deterrent to smugglers. A detachment from Anti-Submarine Light Helicopter Squadron 34 (HSL-34) was embarked for this cruise.
December, 1992: Awarded her sixth Battle Efficiency "E" in December of 1992. ADM Isaac Kidd, Jr., USN (Ret.) presented the award to the crew at a pierside ceremony.
October, 1994: Assigned to Carrier Task Force 60 (CTF-60) forming around USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69). During this time, the task force provided support of the naval embargo of the war-torn republics of the former Yugoslavia (Operation Sharpguard), the enforced no-fly zone over the area (Operation Deny Flight), and the air drop of humanitarian aid to the residents of the city of Sarajevo (Operation Provide Promise).
1996: Caribbean on counter narcotics patrol, under the command of CDR John J. Decavage. During this deployment,
April 16, 1997: Port visit three-day port visit to Boston, Massachusetts, to coincide with the 100th running of the Boston Marathon. From there, she moved southward to Port Au Prince, Haiti for a community relations project before assuming drug interdiction duties in the Caribbean. She transited the Panama Canal to the Eastern Pacific on April 30. Following another transit of the Canal and a brief stop in Charleston, South Carolina, Kidd ended her final deployment in Norfolk on June 10, 1997.
March 12, 1998: Decommissioned on March 12, 1998 at Norfolk Naval Base. Present at the Decommissioning Ceremony were surviving family members of Admiral Kidd including his son, ADM Isaac C. Kidd, Jr., USN (Ret.). The last U.S. Commanding Officer was CDR Thomas R. Andress, USN.
[edit] Current status
The vessel has been renamed the ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803), a Kee Lung-class guided-missile destroyer currently in active service of Republic of China Navy. It was formally commissioned at Su-ao Naval Base in northeastern Taiwan on 2006-11-03 along with its sister ship the ROCS Ma Kong (DDG-1805). Due to her condition in storage she was the third Kidd class vessel commissioned by ROCN.
Tso Ying is named after the largest naval base in Taiwan, the Tso Ying Naval Base in Tsoying District, Kaohsiung of southern Taiwan. The Tso Ying Naval Base is also the location of the Republic of China's naval academy and fleet headquarters.
