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DAI KY frigate (1944/1975)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Dai Ky (ex-Trần Khánh Dư, ex-Forster) HQ-03   Consolidated, Orange, USA 8.1943 13.11.1943 25.1.1944 // 29.4.1975 hulk 1998


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1590

Displacement full, t

1850

Length, m

91.4 wl 93.3 oa

Breadth, m

11.2

Draught, m

3.20 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 Fairbanks Morse 38D81/8 diesels

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

21

Fuel, t

diesel oil 320

Endurance, nm(kts)9000 (12)
Armament

2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 34, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 1 x 24 Hedgehog Mk 15 ASWRL, 2 DCR (120)

Electronic equipmentSPS-28, SPS-10, Mk 34 radars, SQS-31 sonar
Complement

170



Standard scale images


<i>Dai Ky </i>1975
Dai Ky 1975


Project history

Former US FMR (Edsall) class destroyer escort, converted after WWII to radar picket. Trần Khánh Dư was 29.4.1975 captured at Saigon by North Vietnamese Army and commissioned by Vietnam People's Navy as Dai Ky.

Modernizations

early 1980s: - 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 1 x 24 Hedgehog ASWRL, 2 DCR; + 1 x 1 - 81/12 M29 mortar, 2 x 1 - 12.7/79

Naval service

No significant events.