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TAI CHAO escort destroyers (1943-1944/1948)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
太和 [Tai Ho] (ex-Thomas)     Dravo, Wilmington, USA 1.1943 31.7.1943 11/1943 // 31.12.1948 to Taiwan 2.1949 (太和 [Tai Ho]), deleted 1972
太仓 [Tai Tsang] (ex-Bostwick)     Dravo, Wilmington, USA 2.1943 30.8.1943 12/1943 // 31.12.1948 to Taiwan 2.1949 (太仓 [Tai Tsang]), deleted 1973
太湖 [Tai Hu] (ex-Breeman)     Dravo, Wilmington, USA 3.1943 4.9.1943 12/1943 // 31.12.1948 to Taiwan 2.1949 (太湖 [Tai Hu]), deleted 1975
太昭 [Tai Chao] (ex-Carter)     Dravo, Wilmington, USA 11.1943 29.2.1944 5/1944 // 31.12.1948 to Taiwan 2.1949 (太昭 [Tai Chao]), deleted 1973


Technical data


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, 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 8 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 3 - 533 TT, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10.11 ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR (120)

Electronic equipment

SC, SF or SL or SU radars, QGA sonar

Complement

186



Standard scale images


<i>Tai Ho</i> 1948
Tai Ho 1948


Project history

Former USN DET (Cannon) class destroyer escorts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

In 1949 all four ships escaped to Taiwan.

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