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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Yard: | Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Awarded: | March 23, 1978 |
| Laid down: | October 23, 1978 |
| Launched: | December 1, 1979 |
| Commissioned: | August 29, 1981 |
| Decommissioned: | March 31, 1998 |
| Fate: | 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 (60.8 km/h) |
| Complement: | ? officers ? enlisted |
| Armament: | 2 × Mark 26 Standard missile launchers 2 × Mark 141 quad launcher with 8 × AGM-84 Harpoon 2 × Mark 15 20mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mark 45 5 inch 54 cal gun 2 × Mark 32 triple tube mounts with 6 × Mark 46 torpedoes 1 × Mark 112 ASROC launcher |
| Sensors: | SPS-48E air search radar SPG-60 gun fire control radar SPS-55 surface search radar SPQ-9A gun fire control radar SQS-53 sonar SLQ-32(V)3 Outboard II |
| Aircraft: | 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 in a class of destroyers operated by the U.S. Navy. Kidd class vessels were designed for air defense in hot weather. She was named for Rear Admiral Daniel Judson Callaghan.
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.
- 17 years of history go here.
Callaghan was decommissioned in 1998.
She was transferred to the Republic of China in 2004. In that service, the vessel is named Ming Teh (DDG-1802).
See USS Callaghan for other ships of this name.
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