ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803)
.jpg) ROCS Tso Ying, formerly USS Kidd, underway in 1984. | |
| Career (Republic of China) |  |
|---|---|
| Builder: |
Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Laid down: | 26 June 1978 |
| Launched: | 11 August 1979 as USS Kidd (DDG-993) |
| Acquired: | 30 May 2003 |
| Name: | ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803) |
| Namesake: | Tso Ying Naval Base, Tsoying, Kaohsiung City |
| Commissioned: | 3 November 2006 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2015 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Kee Lung-class destroyer |
| 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 |
| Aircraft carried: | One SH-3 Sea King or Two SH-2 Seasprite helicopters |
ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803) (左營) is a Kee Lung-class destroyer 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 3 November 2006 along with sister ship 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.
Tso Ying, formerly USS Kidd (DDG-993), the lead ship of her class of destroyers for the United States Navy, was purchased by the Republic of China in 2004. Her new name in ROCN service was originally planned to be Chi The, which is a transliteration of "Kidd" into Chinese.
References
- 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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