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CHUNGNAM frigate (1944/1963)

Chungnam 1965

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
충남 [Chungnam] (ex-Holt) 73, 1980- 827   Defoe, Bay City, USA 11/1943 15.2.1944 6/1944 // 19.6.1963 stricken 1.1984
  

Displacement standard, t

1430

Displacement full, t

1811

Length, m

91.4 wl 93.3 oa

Breadth, m

11.3

Draught, m

3.40 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 General Electric turbine-generators, 2 electric motors, 2 Combustion Engineering boilers

Power, h. p.

12000

Max speed, kts

23

Fuel, t

oil 347 - 348

Endurance, nm(kts) 5500(15)

Armament

2 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10.11 ASWRL, 2 DCR

Electronic equipment

SPS-5, SPS-6 radars, QGA sonar

Complement

156

Project history: Former US TEV (Rudderow) class destroyer escort.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Chungnam 1971

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