Country: USA.
Class, [Type]: Knox, [FF].
Builder: Avondale Shipyards, USA.
Launch date: 29 August 1970.
Commission date: 18 September 1971.
Decommission date: 15 May 1992.
Displacement ( tons ): 3000 standard, 3960 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 133,5 x 14 x 7,5.
Main machinery: 1 x Westinghouse geared turbine ( 35000 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 27.
Complement: 283 ( 22 officers ).
Guns: 1 x 1 127mm Mk42.
Missiles: SAM: 1 x 8 Mk25 Sea Sparrow.
A/S Weapons: 1 x 8 ASROC.
Torpedoes: 4 x 1 324mm Mk32.
Radars: Air: AN/SPS-40; Surface: AN/SPS-10; Fire Control: AN/SPG-53A.
Sonars: AN/SQS-35; AN/SQR-18.
Helicopters: 1 x SH-2 Sea Sprite LAMPS.
Comment: Transferred to Taiwan, 29 April 1998. Renamed Ni Yang ( F-938 ).