NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
대구 [Daegu] (ex-Wallace L. Lind)	97, 1980- 917		Federal, Kearny, USA	14.2.1944	14.6.1944	8.9.1944 // 3.12.1973	stricken 1994
인천 [Incheon] (ex-De Haven)	98, 1980- 918		Bath Iron Wks, USA	9.8.1943	9.1.1944	31.3.1944 // 4.12.1973	stricken 1993

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2350
Displacement full, t	3320
Length, m	112.5 wl 114.8 oa
Breadth, m	12.5
Draught, m	4.30
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	60000
Max speed, kts	33.4
Fuel, t	oil 497
Endurance, nm(kts)	3300 (20)
Armament	3 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 38, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 1 DCR
Electronic equipment	97: SPS-10, SPS-40, Mk 25 radars, SQS-29, SQA-10 sonars, WLR-1 ECM suite, 2x decoy RL 98: SPS-10, SPS-37, Mk 25 radars, SQS-29 sonar, WLR-1 ECM suite, 2x decoy RL
Complement	235

Standard scale images

Project history

Former USN Allen M. Sumner class destroyers, modernized under the FRAM II programme in 1960s. Hangar and flight deck, previously for DASH drone, were later converted to carry Alouette III helicopter.

Modernizations

1976, Incheon: + 1 x 3 - 20/76 Sea Vulcan

1978, both: + Alouette III helicopter (hangar and flight deck were widened and strengthened)

1978-1979, both: + 2 x 2 Harpoon SSM (4 RGM-84)

early 1980s, both: + 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1

Naval service

No significant events.