ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803)

ROCS Tso Ying, formerly USS Kidd, underway in 1984.
History
Taiwan
Builder:	Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Laid down:	26 June 1978
Launched:	11 August 1979 as USS Kidd (DDG-993)
Acquired:	30 May 2003
Name:	ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803)
Namesake:	Tso Ying Naval Base, Tsoying, Kaohsiung City
Commissioned:	3 November 2006
Status:	in active service, as of 2024
General characteristics
Class & type:	Kee Lung-class destroyer
Displacement:	7,289 tons standard
Length:	171.6 m (563 ft)
Beam:	16.8 m (55 ft)
Draft:	9.6 m (31.5 ft)
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 80,000 shp total (60 MW)
Speed:	33 knots (61 km/h)
Sensors and processing systems:	SPS-48E air search radar SPG-60 gun fire control radar SPS-55 surface search radar SPQ-9A gun fire control radar SQS-53 sonar SLQ-32(V)3 Outboard II
Armament:	2 × Mark 26 launchers 62 × SM-2 Block IIIA SAM 2 × Mark 141 quad launcher 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon 2 × Mark 15 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mark 45 5 in (127 mm) gun 2 × Mark 32 triple tube mounts with 6 × Mark 46 torpedoes
Aircraft carried:	One SH-3 Sea King or Two SH-2 Seasprite helicopters

ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803) (左營) is a Kee Lung-class destroyer guided-missile destroyer currently in active service of Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy. It was formally commissioned at Suao Naval Base in northeastern Taiwan on 3 November 2006 along with sister ship ROCS Ma Kong (DDG-1805). Tso Ying is named after the largest naval base in Taiwan, the Tso Ying Naval Base in Tsoying District, Kaohsiung City at southern Taiwan. The Tso Ying Naval Base is also the location of the Republic of China's naval academy and fleet headquarters.

Tso Ying, formerly USS Kidd (DDG-993), the lead ship of her class of destroyers for the United States Navy, was purchased by the Republic of China in 2004. Her new name in ROCN service was originally planned to be Chi The, which is a transliteration of "Kidd" into Chinese.

References

• This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
• Navysite.de: USS Kidd