ROCS Yueh Fei (FFG-1106)
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Name: | ROCS Yueh Fei |
Namesake: | Yue Fei |
Builder: | China Ship Building Corporation, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan |
Laid down: | 5 September 1992 |
Launched: | 26 August 1994 |
Commissioned: | February 1996 |
Homeport: | Tsoying |
Status: | in active service, as of 2025[update] |
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Class & type: | Cheng Kung-class frigate |
Displacement: | 4,200 long tons (4,267 t) full |
Length: | 139 m (456 ft) |
Beam: | 13.7 m (45 ft) |
Draft: | 5.7 m (18 ft 8 in) |
Propulsion: | 2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) coupled to a single shaft and controllable-pitch propeller |
Speed: | 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)+ |
Range: | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Complement: | 235 |
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Aircraft carried: | 2 × SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters |
ROCS Yueh Fei (岳飛, FFG-1106), is a Cheng Kung-class guided-missile frigate of the Republic of China Navy. Yueh Fei was laid down on 5 September 1992 by the China SB Corp., in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, launched on 26 August 1994, and commissioned in February 1996. She is the fourth ship of the Cheng Kung-class frigates.
As of 2005, Yueh Fei is home ported at ROCN Tso-Ying naval base.
Namesake
Yueh Fei is named after Yueh Fei (岳飛) (1103–1142), who was a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty. He was famous for leading numerous successful defenses of the Southern Song Dynasty against invasions of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty from north.
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