ROCS Yueh Fei (PFG2-1106)

History
Taiwan
Name: ROCS Yueh Fei (PFG2-1106)
Namesake: Yue Fei (岳飛)
Builder: China Ship Building Corporation, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Laid down: 5 September 1992
Launched: 26 August 1994
Commissioned: February 1996
Homeport: Tsoying
Status: in active service
General characteristics
Class and type: Cheng Kung-class frigate
Displacement: 4,200 long tons (4,267 t) full
Length: 139 m (456 ft)
Beam: 13.7 m (45 ft)
Draft: 5.7 m (18 ft 8 in)
Propulsion: 2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) coupled to a single shaft and controllable-pitch propeller
Speed: 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)+
Range: 5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement: 235
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 2 × SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters

ROCS Yueh Fei (岳飛, PFG2-1106), 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.



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