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DAE GU (DD 917) class)

Country of Origin: South Korea


 0 DESTROYERS (Ex-US ALLEN M. SUMNER CLASS, FRAM II)

 Name     Pendant   Launched   Commissioned   Status
 DAE GU   DD-917    1944       1944           Scrapped
   (ex-US DD-703 WALLACE L. LIND)

 INCHON   DD-918    1944       1944           Scrapped
   (ex-US DD-727 DE HAVEN)

These were U.S.-built destroyers. In the early 1960s the ships underwent the FRAM II (Fleet Rehabilitation And Modernization) upgrade, which included removing the six 3-in guns and five 21-in torpedo...

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