ROCS Su Ao explained

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Ship Country:Taiwan
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Ship Laid Down:23 October 1978
Ship Launched:1 December 1979 as
Ship Acquired:30 May 2003
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Ship Name:ROCS Su Ao (DDG-1802)
Ship Commissioned:17 December 2005
Ship Displacement:
  • Light: 6950t
  • Full: 9574t
  • Dead Weight: 2624t
Ship Length:171.6 m (563 ft)
Ship Beam:16.8 m (55 ft)
Ship Draft:10.1 m (33.1 ft)
Ship Propulsion:4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 80,000 shp total (60 MW)
Ship Speed:33 knots (61 km/h)
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ROCS Su Ao (蘇澳; DDG-1802) is a guided-missile destroyer currently in active service of the Republic of China Navy. Su Ao was formerly American, which was decommissioned from the United States Navy in 1998. For some time after the ship's 30 May 2003 purchase, Su Ao was tentatively named Ming Teh (明德), following the example of Chi Teh (紀德), but it was later decided to be named Su Ao, after the Su-Ao naval base in eastern Taiwan