ROCS Tso Ying

ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803; Chinese: 左營號; Wade–Giles: Tso³ Ying² Hao²) is a Kee Lung-class guided-missile destroyer currently in active service of the Republic of China Navy (ROCN; Taiwan). It was formally commissioned at Suao Naval Base in northeastern Taiwan on 3 November 2006 along with sister ship ROCS Ma Kong (DDG-1805). Tso Ying is named after the largest naval base in Taiwan, the Tso Ying Naval Base in Tsoying District, Kaohsiung City in southern Taiwan. The Tso Ying Naval Base is also the location of the Taiwanese naval academy and fleet headquarters.

ROCS Tso Ying
History
Taiwan
Builder	Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Laid down	26 June 1978
Launched	11 August 1979 as USS Kidd (DDG-993)
Acquired	30 May 2003
Name	ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803)
Namesake	Tso Ying Naval Base, Tsoying, Kaohsiung City
Commissioned	3 November 2006
Status	in active service
General characteristics
Class and type	Kee Lung-class destroyer
Displacement	Light: 6,950 t (6,840 long tons; 7,660 short tons) Full: 9,574 t (9,423 long tons; 10,554 short tons) Dead Weight: 2,624 t (2,583 long tons; 2,892 short tons)
Length	171.6 m (563 ft)
Beam	16.8 m (55 ft)
Draft	10.1 m (33.1 ft)
Propulsion	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 80,000 shp total (60 MW)
Speed	33 knots (61 km/h)
Sensors and processing systems	SPS-48E air search radar SPS-49(V)5 air search radar SPG-60 gun fire control radar SPS-55 surface search radar 2 × SPG-51D Missile Control Radar SPQ-9A gun fire control radar SPS-64 Navigation Radar SQS-53 hull-mounted sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys	AN/SLQ-32(V)3 OUTBOARD II EW Suite Mark 36 SRBOC AN/SLQ-25 Nixie towed sonar decoy
Armament	2 × Mark 26 launchers with 68 × SM-2 Block IIIA SAM 1 × Mark 141 quad launcher with 4 × RGM-84 Harpoon 2 × Mark 45 5 in (127 mm) gun 2 × Mark 15 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 4 × 12.7mm MGs 2 × Mark 32 triple tube mounts with 6 × Mark 46 torpedoes
Aircraft carried	1 Sikorsky S-70C(M) helicopter

Tso Ying, formerly USS Kidd (DDG-993), the lead ship of her class of destroyers for the United States Navy, was purchased by the Taiwanese government in 2004. Her new name in ROCN service was originally planned to be Chi The, which is a transliteration of "Kidd" into Chinese.

References

•  This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.