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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

YUNG YANG ocean minesweepers (1954-1956/1995)

Yung Yang 2010

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
永陽 [Yung Yang] (ex-Implicit) 1306   Wilmington BW, USA 10.1952 1.8.1953 3.1954 // 1.3.1995 in service (2019)
永慈 [Yung Tzu] (ex-Conquest) 1307   Martinac, Tacoma, USA 3.1953 20.5.1954 7.1955 // 1.3.1995 in service (2019)
永固 [Yung Ku] (ex-Gallant) 1308   Martinac, Tacoma, USA 5.1953 4.6.1954 9.1955 // 1.3.1995 stricken 6.2013
永德 [Yung Teh] (ex-Pledge) 1309   Martinac, Tacoma, USA 6.1954 20.7.1955 4.1956 // 1.3.1995 in service (2019)

 

Displacement standard, t

715

Displacement full, t

850

Length, m

50.3 wl 52.4 oa

Breadth, m

11.0

Draught, m

4.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

1306, 1308, 1309: 4 Packard diesels

1307: 4 Waukesha diesels

Power, h. p.

2280

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

diesel oil 48

Endurance, nm(kts)

2400(12)

Armament

2 x 1 - 12.7/90, Super Sea Rover USV (can carry), A Mk 4(V), A Mk 6(B) acoustic, SLQ-37(V) magnetic and SLQ-38 mechanical minesweeping gear

Electronic equipment

SPS-53L radar, SQQ-14 sonar

Complement

70

Project history: Transferred in 1994. All had outer hull planking replaced prior to delivery in Taiwan; they were formally commissioned at Kaohsiung in 1995. Wooden construction; nonmagnetic, stainless-steel machinery. Hoist machinery for the SQQ-14 minehunting sonar occupies the position of the former 40-mm AA gun. Plans to update their mine-countermeasures systems have not reached fruition.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Yung Ku 2000

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