USS Scott (DDG-995)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Scott.

USS Scott underway on 21 March 1986
History
United States
Name	Scott
Namesake	Norman Scott
Builder	Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down	12 February 1979
Launched	1 March 1980
Acquired	8 September 1981
Commissioned	24 October 1981
Decommissioned	10 December 1998
Stricken	10 December 1998
Identification	Callsign: NJSP Hull number: DDG-995
Fate	Sold to Taiwan, 30 May 2003; commissioned as ROCS Kee Lung (DDG-1801)
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General characteristics
Class and type	Kidd-class destroyer
Displacement	9,783 tons full
Length	171.6 m (563 ft)
Beam	16.8 m (55 ft)
Draft	9.6 m (31.5 ft)
Propulsion	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 80,000 shp (60,000 kW) 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 AN/SQR-17A Sonar Signal Processing System sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys	AN/SLQ-32(V)3
Armament	2 × Mark 26 RIM-66 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
Aircraft carried	1 × SH-3 Sea King or 2 × SH-2 Seasprite

USS Scott (DDG-995) was a Kidd-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Rear Admiral Norman Scott, who was killed during a surface action at the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (sometimes referred to as the Battle of Friday the 13th) aboard USS Atlanta, receiving a posthumous Medal of Honor for his actions.

Originally named Nader, Scott was ordered by the Shah of Iran, but was undelivered at the time of the Iranian Revolution and the U.S. Navy elected to commission her and her sister ships for service in the Persian Gulf. The destroyers 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.

Scott completed a major re-fit in Philadelphia in 1988 that focused on upgrading its radar and fire control tracking system.

Scott was decommissioned from the U.S. Navy on 10 December 1998.

Current status

Scott was sold to the Republic of China in 2004, originally to be named Chi Te. However, due to her better storage condition than her sister ships, she became the first Kidd-class vessel to be commissioned by the Republic of China Navy (ROCN) and thus became ROCS Kee Lung (DDG-1801), the lead vessel of the new ROCN Kee Lung-class destroyers.

After almost two years of refit and training in the U.S., the Kee Lung was commissioned on 17 December 2005 at Keelung naval port in northern Taiwan. The ROCN paid just over $690 million for the four Kidd-class destroyers, giving it extensive anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) capabilities.

References

• This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.

External links

• Navysite.de page
• Unofficial site