home

fighting ships of the world

REPUBLIC OF KOREA NAVY (SOUTH KOREA)

ESCORTS

DONGHAE corvettes (1983)

Donghae 2000

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
동해 [Donghae] 751   Korea SB, Pusan   18.11.1982 10.11.1983 stricken 6.2009
수원 [Suwon] 752   Korea Takoma, Masan   18.12.1982 20.11.1983 stricken 6.2010
강릉 [Gangneung] 753   Hyundai, Ulsan   14.5.1983 21.12.1983 stricken 6.2010
안양 [Anyang] 755   Daewoo SME, Okpo   15.6.1983 21.12.1983 stricken 9.2011, to Colombia (Nariño)
  

Displacement standard, t

800

Displacement full, t

1076

Length, m

78.5

Breadth, m

10.0

Draught, m

2.60 mean hull

No of shafts

2

Machinery

CODOG: 1 General Electric LM-2500 gas turbine / 2 MTU 12V956 TB82 diesels

Power, h. p.

27800 / 6240

Max speed, kts

31

Fuel, t

diesel / gas turbine oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 4000(15)

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/62 OTO-Melara Compact, 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1 Mod.2, 2 x 2 - 30/75 Emerlec EX-30, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 2 DCR(12)

Electronic equipment

SPS-64(v), WM-28 radars, LIOD e/o director, EDO 768 sonar, ULQ-12K ECM suite, 2x Mk 34 RBOC II decoy RL

Complement

95

Project history: First indigenious large combat ship design. Ships proved too small for their designed duties and only four were built. Previously two SSM launchers were planned to be installed at the place of old twin WW-II era Bofors.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Gangneung 2008

© Ivan Gogin, 2018