| ROCS Pan Chao (PFG2-1108) | |
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| ROCN Pan Chao (PFG2-1108) and ROCN Tian Dan (PFG2-1110) Shipped at Zuoying Naval Base 20141123a.jpg | |
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| Name: | ROCS Pan Chao |
| Namesake: | Pan Chao (班超) |
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| Laid down: | 25 July 1995 |
| Launched: | 3 July 1997 |
| Commissioned: | 16 December 1997 |
| Identification: | PFGS-1108 |
| Status: | ship in active service |
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| Class & type: | Cheng Kung-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 4,103 tons full |
| Length: | 453 ft (138 m) |
| Beam: | 46.95 ft (14.31 m) |
| Propulsion: | General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 40,000 shp (30,000 kW) total |
| Speed: | 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
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| Aircraft carried: | Sikorsky S-70C-1/2 |
ROCS Pan Chao (班超, PFG2-1108) is the sixth of eight Taiwanese-built Cheng Kung-class frigates of the Republic of China Navy, based on the United States Oliver Hazard Perry class. Laid down in July 1995 and launched in May 1996, Pan Chao was commissioned in December 1997. All of these Taiwanese frigates have the length of the later Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates, but have a different weapon and electronics fit.
Like her sister ships, Pan Chao was built under license by China SB Corp. at Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, ROC.
As of 2015[update], Pan Chao is homeported at Tso-Ying naval base.
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