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 USS Callaghan |
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| Class and type: | Kidd class destroyer |
| Named after: | Rear Admiral Daniel Judson Callaghan |
| Ordered: | March 23, 1978 |
| Builder: | Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Laid down: | October 23, 1978 |
| Launched: | December 1, 1979 |
| Acquired: | July 6, 1981 |
| Commissioned: | August 29, 1981 |
| Decommissioned: | March 31, 1998 |
| Struck: | March 31, 1998 |
| Status: | Sold to Taiwan |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 9,783 tons full |
| Length: | 171.6 m (563 ft) |
| Beam: | 16.8 m (55 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 80,000 shp total |
| Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h) |
| Complement: | 31 officers 332 enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: | AN/SPS-48E 3D air search radar AN/SPS-49 2D air search radar SPG-60 gun fire control radar AN/SPG-51 missile fire control radar AN/SPS-55 surface search radar AN/SPQ-9A gun fire control radar SQS-53 sonar |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: | AN/SLQ-32(V)3 Outboard II |
| Armament: | 2 × Mark 26 Standard missile launchers 2 × Mark 141 quad launcher with 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon 2 × Mark 15 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mark 45 5 in (127 mm) / 54 caliber gun 2 × Mark 32 triple tube mounts with 6 × Mark 46 torpedoes 1 × Mark 112 ASROC launcher |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 × SH-3 Sea King or 2 × SH-2 Seasprite |
Derived from the Spruance class, USS Callaghan (DD-994/DDG-994) was the second ship of the Kidd class of destroyers operated by the U.S. Navy. These vessels were designed for air defense in hot weather. She was named for Rear Admiral Daniel Judson Callaghan, who was killed in action aboard his flagship, the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco, during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 13 November 1942. Originally named Daryush, Callaghan was ordered by the Shah of Iran, but was undelivered when the 1979 Iranian Revolution occurred. Subsequent to this, the U.S. Navy elected to commission her and her sister ships for service in the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea, as they were equipped with heavy-duty air conditioning and were also well suited to filtering sand and the results from NBC warfare. She was commissioned in 1981, and home ported in San Diego, California at North Island. On September 1 1983 Callaghan was on deployment to the Western Pacific, and making a port visit in Sasebo, Japan. Korean Air Lines flight 007, on its way from Anchorage, Alaska to Seoul, Korea, carrying 269 passengers and crew, strayed into Soviet airspace. A Soviet Sukhoi 15 fighter jet was sent up to destroy the intruding Boeing 747. After the attack, the Callaghan's crew was recalled and sent to search for survivors. Being the first and only U.S. ship on station, the Russian Navy wasn't rolling out the welcome mats, and Callaghan and her crew were in a game of cat and mouse with the Russian Navy until other U.S. ships arrived. No survivors were found, but some remains were recovered. Callaghan and her crew were never rewarded for this heroic act of leaping into the lion's mouth. Russia was not happy to have us there and helping to air her dirty laundry. Callaghan earned her first Battle Efficiency E for grade period July 1983 to December 1984, and earned the Humanitarian Service Medal for saving two boatloads of people in the South China Sea. For grading period January 1985 to June 1986 Callaghan earned her second Battle Efficiency E by winning all the awards from the ships in competition. On her return to port, with the news of her clean sweep, the Captain ordered that every lanyard on the ship would display a broom, to honor the crew and show all ships present the outstanding accomplishment. Clean sweeps are rare. Callaghan was decommissioned in 1998. See USS Callaghan for other ships of this name.
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In Fiction
The USS Callaghan is mentioned in the BBC drama 'Threads' which is described as being in collision with the Soviet crusier Kirov in the lead up to a nuclear war.
Current status
Callaghan was sold to the Republic of China in 2004. She was originally to be named Ming Teh (DDG-1802), but it was later decided to name her Su Ao, after the Su-Ao naval base in eastern Taiwan, and become the second ship of the new ROCN Kee Lung class of destroyers. After almost two years of refit and training in the U.S., Su Ao was commissioned on December 17, 2005 at Kee-Lung naval port in northern Taiwan.
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