YUNG FENG minehunters (1991)

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Yung Feng 2000

Ships

Name	No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
永豐 [Yung Feng] (ex-Explorer-I)	1301	Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder, Germany	14.9.1988	26.4.1990	12.7.1991	in service (2019)
永嘉 [Yung Chia] (ex-Explorer-II)	1302	Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder, Germany	14.9.1988	26.4.1990	12.7.1991	in service (2019)
永定 [Yung Ting] (ex-Explorer-III)	1303	Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder, Germany	23.3.1989	22.10.1990	2.5.1991	in service (2019)
永順 [Yung Shun] (ex-Explorer-IV)	1305	Abeking & Rasmussen, Lemwerder, Germany	23.3.1989	22.10.1990	12.7.1991	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	500
Displacement full, t	540
Length, m	49.7
Breadth, m	10.8
Draught, m	2.80
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 MTU 8 V 396 TB93 diesels
Power, h. p.	2180
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	2500(12)
Armament	2 x 1 - 12.7/90, Pinguin A1 USV, Pinguin B3 USV
Electronic equipment	Decca radar, TSM 2022 sonar
Complement	45

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Yung Feng 2000

Project history

Two ordered in 1988 and two in 1989. Were delivered without armament or mine-countermeasures equipment in blue hull/white superstructure paint scheme and lettered "CPC Offshore" on sides for the China Petroleum Corporation, which had ostensibly ordered them as "multipurpose offshore vessels" intended to "support oil rigs, oceanographic research, firefighting, pollution control, and search and rescue." Not formally commissioned until March 1995. Planned order for up to eight more canceled due to a procurement scandal over spare parts for the first four, which have proven difficult to maintain. Wooden hull construction. Thales IBIS-V mine-countermeasures data system. Each can carry one Pinguin A1 search/classification and one Pinguin B3 mine localization and disposal ROV.

Modernizations

1997, all: + 1 x 1 - 20/68 T75

2010s, all: - Pinguin A1 USV, TSM 2022 sonar; + Pinguin B3 USV (2nd), SA 950 sonar