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Corvette ROKS Cheonan (PCC-772)

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Classification

Ship class:
Pohang-class corvette
Type:
Corvette

Basic information

Namesake:
City in South Chungcheong Province
Operator:
Republic of Korea NavyRepublic of Korea Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Hanjin Heavy IndustriesHanjin Heavy Industries
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Sunk:
Status:
Museum
Fate:
Sunk on 26 March 2010 by torpedo attack from the North Korea. Raised and used as a memorial ship in Pyeongtaek

Ship measurements

Displacement:
1,220 t
Length:
88.3 m
Beam:
10 m
Draft:
2.9 m

Machine

Propulsion system:
CODOG
Propulsion:
  • 1 * GE LM2500 gas turbine engine
  • 2 * MTU 12V 956 TB82 diesel engine
Speed:
32 knots
Range:
4,000 nautical miles

Personnel

Complement:
104

Combat assets

Armament:
  • 4 * Harpoon missiles
  • 2 * OTO Melara(76mm)/62 compact cannon
  • 2 * Breda 40mm/70 cannon
  • 6 * Mark 46 torpedoes
  • 12 * Mark 9 depth charges

ROKS Cheonan (PCC-772) was a Pohang-class corvette of the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN), commissioned in 1989. On 26 March 2010, she broke in two following an explosion and sank near the sea border with North Korea, killing 46 sailors. An investigation conducted by an international team of experts from South Korea, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Sweden concluded that Cheonan was sunk by a torpedo launched by a North Korean Yeono-class midget submarine.

Cheonan was launched in November 1989 from Korea Tacoma Marine Ind., Ltd., Masan, South Korea. The ship's primary mission was coastal patrol, with an emphasis on anti-submarine operations. Cheonan was one of the ships involved in the First Battle of Yeonpyeong in 1999. It is also known that the ship suffered slight damage on the stern in the First Battle of Yeonpyeong.

ROKS Cheonan is now a museum ship at the Pyeongtaek Naval Base. She is stationed near the patrol boat ROKS PKM 357 that was sunk in the Second Battle of Yeonpyeong.

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