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Jeonbuk 1973

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
충북 [Chungbuk] (ex-Chevalier)	95, 1980- 915		Bath Iron Wks, USA	12.6.1944	29.10.1944	9.1.1945 // 5.7.1972	stricken 12.2000
전북 [Jeonbuk] (ex-Everett F. Larson)	96, 1980- 916		Bath Iron Wks, USA	9/1944	28.1.1945	6.4.1945 // 30.10.1972	stricken 12.1999

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2400
Displacement full, t	3500
Length, m	116.6 wl 119.2 oa
Breadth, m	12.5
Draught, m	4.40
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	60000
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	oil 640
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000 (20)
Armament	3 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 38, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 1 DCR
Electronic equipment	SPS-10, SPS-40, Mk 25 radars, SQS-29 sonar, WLR-1, ULQ-6 ECM suites, 2x decoy RL
Complement	274

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Project history

Former USN Gearing class destroyers, converted to radar picket in 1949 and subsequently modernized under the FRAM II programme in 1960s. Hangar and flight deck, previously for DASH drone, were later converted to carry Alouette III helicopter. Purchased outright 31.1.1977.

Modernizations

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

1976, Jeonbuk: + 1 x 2 - 30/75 Emerlec-30

1979, both: + 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84), Alouette III helicopter (hangar and flight deck were widened and strengthened)

1986, both: - ULQ-6 ECM: + T-Mk 6 Fanfare torpedo decoy

late 1980s, Chungbuk: + 1 x 3 - 20/76 Sea Vulcan

late 1980s, Jeonbuk: - 1 x 2 - 30/75; + 2 x 3 - 20/76 Sea Vulcan

Naval service

No significant events.