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Hsien Yang 1970

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
咸陽 [Hsien Yang] (ex-Rodman)	DD16		Federal, Kearny, USA	12/1940	26.9.1941	1/1942 // 28.7.1955	wrecked 1969, CTL
咸陽 [Hsien Yang] (ex-Hatakaze, ex-Macomb)	DD16		Bath Iron Wks, USA	9/1940	23.9.1941	1/1942 // 6.8.1970	stricken 1974

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1900
Displacement full, t	2600
Length, m	103.9 wl 106.2 oa
Breadth, m	11.0 DD634, 635: 11.3
Draught, m	4.92 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	50000
Max speed, kts	35
Fuel, t	oil 302 - 453
Endurance, nm(kts)	3630(20) - 3880(20)
Armament	DD16(i): 3 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 7 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (34), mechanical minesweeping gear DD16(ii): 3 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 4 - 40/60 Mk 2, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 2 DCR (34)
Electronic equipment	SC, SG, Mk 12.22 radars, QCJ sonar
Complement	208

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Project history

Former USN destroyers of Bristol class. Hsien Yang was transferred on loan from the USN. In addition the ex-Japanese destroyers Hatakaze and Asakaze were transferred to Taiwan in August 1970 to provide spares for the first four destroyers of Benson/Gleaves/Bristol classes. After the loss of the original Hsien Yang former Hatakaze was commissioned by ROC Navy under the same name.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.