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Guided missile frigate USS Taylor (FFG-50)

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Classification

Ship class:
Cheng Kung-class frigate Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
Type:
Frigate

Basic information

Namesake:
Commander Jesse J. Taylor
Renaming:
  • ROCS Ming-chuan (PFG-1112) (09.03.2016-present)
Operator:
Republic of China Navy (Taiwan)Republic of China Navy (Taiwan) United States NavyUnited States Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Bath Iron Works (BIW)Bath Iron Works (BIW)
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Decommissioned (out):
Status:
Active
Fate:
Transferred to Taiwan Navy, 2013

Ship measurements

Displacement:
4,200 t
Length:
138 m
Beam:
14 m
Draft:
6.7 m

Machine

Propulsion system:
COGAG
Propulsion:
  • 2 * General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) through a single shaft and variable pitch propeller
  • 2 * Auxiliary Propulsion Units, 350 hp (260 kW) retractable electric azimuth thrusters for manoeuvring and docking
Speed:
29 knots
Range:
5,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (9,300 km at 33 km/h)

Personnel

Complement:
205

Combat assets

Electronics:
  • AN/SPS-49 air-search radar
  • AN/SPS-55 surface-search radar
  • CAS and STIR fire-control radar
  • AN/SQS-56 sonar
  • AN/SLQ-32
Armament:
  • 1 * OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun
  • 2 * Mk 32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes
  • 1 * Vulcan Phalanx CIWS
  • 4 * .50-cal (12.7 mm) machine guns.
  • 1 * Mk 13 Mod 4 single-arm launcher for Harpoon anti-ship missiles and SM-1MR Standard anti-ship/air missiles (40 round magazine)
Aircraft:
  • 2 * SH-60 LAMPS III helicopter

USS Taylor (FFG-50), an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Commander Jesse J. Taylor (1925–1965), a naval aviator who was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously for his heroism in the Vietnam War.

Taylor's keel was laid down by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine, on May 5, 1983. She was launched November 5, 1983, and commissioned December 1, 1984 in Bath, Maine. She was the frigate long-hull variant (Flight II).

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