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ROKS Cheonghaejin (ASR-21)
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ROKS Cheonghaejin on 21 April 2014
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Name:
  • Cheonghaejin
  • (청해진)
Namesake: Cheonghaejin
Builder: Hanjin
Launched: 18 October 1995
Commissioned: 2 December 1996
Identification:
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class & type: Cheonghaejin-class submarine rescue ship
Displacement:
  • 3,200 tonnes (3,149 long tons) light
  • 4,300 tonnes (4,232 long tons) full load
Length: 102.8 m (337 ft 3 in)
Beam: 16.4 m (53 ft 10 in)
Draft: 4.6 m (15 ft 1 in)
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement: 140 crew
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • AN/SPS-64V surface-search radar
  • Sonar
Armament:
  • 1 × M61 Vulcan
  • 6 × M2 Browning machine gun
  • Aircraft carried: 1 × SH-60 Seahawk
    Aviation facilities: Helipad

    ROKS Cheonghaejin (ASR-21) is the only ship of the Cheonghaejin-class submarine rescue ship in the Republic of Korea Navy. She is named after the military headquarter, Cheonghaejin.[1]

    Design[]

    Her operations include rescuing trapped sailors in submarines, naval operation support for submarines, underwater research and mapping support, and recovery of sunk vessels. It is equipped with a deep submergence rescue vehicle (DSRV) that operates up to 500 metres (1,600 ft), and a rescue chamber that holds up to nine people. Once all nine Son Wonil-class submarines are delivered to the Republic of Korea Navy, another ASR ship of the same class is planned to be built.

    Construction and career[]

    ROKS Cheonghaejin was launched on 18 October 1995 by Daewoo Shipbuilding and commissioned on 2 December 1996.[2]

    She salvaged a North Korean Yugo-class submarine in 1998.

    She salvaged Chamsuri-class patrol boat #357 that was sunk during the naval clash in 2002 with North Korea.

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