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REPUBLIC OF KOREA NAVY (SOUTH KOREA)

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GYEONGGI frigates (1944/1956)

Gangwon 1960

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
경기 [Gyeonggi] (ex-Muir) 71   Tampa SB, USA 6.1943 4.6.1944 8/1944 // 2.1956 stricken 12.1977
강원 [Gangwon] (ex-Sutton) 72   Tampa SB, USA 8.1943 6.8.1944 12/1944 // 2.1956 stricken 10.1977
  

 

Displacement standard, t

1253

Displacement full, t

1602

Length, m

91.4 wl 93.3 oa

Breadth, m

11.2

Draught, m

3.20 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 General Motors diesel-generators, 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

21

Fuel, t

diesel oil 320

Endurance, nm(kts) 11500 (11)

Armament

3 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22, 3 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 10 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10.11 ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR

Electronic equipment

SC, SF radars, QGA sonar

Complement

210

Project history: Former USN DET (Cannon/Bostwick) class destroyer escorts.

Modernizations: 1964, both: - 6 x 1 - 20/70, 8 DCT, SC, SF radars; + 2 x 3 - 324 TT, SPS-5, SPS-6 radars

Naval service: No significant events.

Gyeonggi 1971

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