A Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy Tien Shan-class high-speed transport leaving Keelung, 28th October 1980
Displacements: 1,400 standard, 2,130 full load
Length overall: 93.3 m
Draft: 3.1 m
Engines: geared General Electric turbines with electric drive, 12,000 s.h.p.; twin-screw
Speed: 23.6 knots
Complement 200
Main armament: 2 x 5” guns.
One of the US Navy's Charles Lawrence-class high-speed transports (APDs; converted destroyers & destroyer escorts) of which 12 were sold to Taiwan between 1962 & 1968, although one of them sank en route to Taiwan