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REPUBLIC OF KOREA NAVY (SOUTH KOREA)

COASTAL FORCES

BAEKDUSAN submarine chasers (1942-1945/1950-1964)

Baekdusan 1950

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
백두산 [Baekdusan] (ex-PC823) 701   Leatham D. Smith SB, Sturgeon Bay, USA 11.1943 15.1.1944 7.1944 // 1.1950 stricken 1960
금강산 [Geumgangsan] (ex-L'Impétueux, ex-PC799) 702   Commercial Iron Wks, Portland, USA 7.1943 14.8.1943 8.1944 // 6.1950 stricken 1960
삼각산 [Samgaksan] (ex-PC(C)802, ex-PC802) 703   Commercial Iron Wks, Portland, USA 8.1943 25.9.1943 1.1945 // 1950 stricken 1960
지리산 [Jirisan] (ex-PC810) 704   Commercial Iron Wks, Portland, USA 10.1943 11.12.1943 4.1945 // 1950 sunk 12.1951
한라산 [Hanlasan] (ex-PC485) 705   Consolidated SB, New York, USA 5.1941 20.12.1941 4.1942 // 1.1952 foundered 11.1962
묘향산 [Myohyangsan] (ex-PC600) 706   Consolidated SB, New York, USA 2.1942 9.5.1942 8.1942 // 1.1952 stricken 1968
오대산 [Odaesan] (ex-Winnemucca, ex-PC1145) 707   Defoe, Bay City, USA 6.1943 27.10.1943 6.1944 // 11.1960 stricken 1975
금정산 [Geumjeongsan] (ex-Grosse Pointe, ex-PC1546) 708   Consolidated SB, New York, USA 11.1943 30.1.1944 6.1944 // 11.1960 stricken 1975
설악산 [Seolaksan] (ex-Chadron, ex-PC564) 709   Consolidated SB, New York, USA 1.1942 12.4.1942 7.1942 // 1.1964 stricken 1975
  

Displacement standard, t

280

Displacement full, t

450

Length, m

51.8 wl 52.9 oa

Breadth, m

7.06

Draught, m

3.30 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.

2880

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

diesel oil 49
Endurance, nm(kts) 3000 (12)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR

Electronic equipment

SF or SO or SU radar, QHA sonar

Complement 70

Project history: Former USN PC 173ft submarine chasers. First ship was purchased in September 1949 and delivered next year, next four were transferred during Korean War.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Jirisan was mined and sunk 26.12.1951 off Wonsan. Hanlasan was sunk in a typhoon at Guam in November 1962, later raised and scrapped in 1964.

Odaesan 1961

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