USS Chandler (DDG-996)
.jpg) The Chandler in 1991 off San Diego |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | March 23, 1978 |
| Keel laying | May 7, 1979 |
| Launch | June 28, 1980 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | March 13, 1982 |
| Decommissioning | September 23, 1999 |
| Whereabouts | In the service of the Taiwanese Navy as Ma Kong |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
9700 tn.l. |
| length |
172 meters |
| width |
16.80 meters |
| Draft |
8.8 meters |
| crew |
34 officers, 299 sailors |
| drive |
2 propellers, driven by 4 gas turbines; 80,000 wave horsepower |
| speed |
32.5 knots |
| Range |
6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 20 knots |
| Armament |
2 double-arm launchers for rockets |
The USS Chandler (DDG-996) is a Kidd-class destroyer . The ship was named after Admiral Theodore E. Chandler . After decommissioning the US Navy, the ship was sold to the Republic of China (Taiwan) .
history
The Chandler was commissioned by Ingalls Shipbuilding in 1978 . The client was the United States Navy , but the ship was to be built for Iran. There the name Andushirvan was intended for the ship. After the Iranian Revolution, however, the contract was canceled and the ship was put into service with the US Navy in 1981.
The first mission in 1984 took the Chandler to the Western Pacific, the second in 1986 to the Persian Gulf. In 1987 she rescued 41 crew members of the Cypriot supertanker Pivot that caught fire . She was also part of Operation Earnest Will . In 1988 the destroyer drove again to the western Pacific and from there to the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war .
At the beginning of the 1990s, the Chandler lay in the yard at Todd Pacific Shipyards , where the New Threat Upgrade was installed, among other things . In 1991 she took part in Operation Desert Storm , where she provided air raid protection for ships in the Strait of Hormuz . In 1993 the ship sailed as part of a carrier combat group led by the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) in the Persian Gulf, where it took part in Operation Southern Watch . From October onwards, the combat group stayed in front of Somalia.
The Chandler was decommissioned in 1999 and sold to the Republic of China (Taiwan) in 2001 , where it has been operating as Ma Kong since late 2006 .
