USS Sarsfield
22°59′18.7980″N 120°09′22.8168″E / 22.988555000°N 120.156338000°E
USS Sarsfield underway on 23 July 1973 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Sarsfield |
| Namesake | Eugene S. Sarsfield |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down | 15 January 1945 |
| Launched | 27 May 1945 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Eugene S. Sarsfield |
| Commissioned | 31 July 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 1 October 1977 |
| Stricken | 1 October 1977 |
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| Honors & awards | See Awards |
| Fate | Transferred to Taiwan, 1 October 1977 |
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| Taiwan | |
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| Namesake | Te Yang |
| Acquired | 1 October 1977 |
| Commissioned | January 1978 |
| Identification | Hull number: DD-925 |
| Reclassified | DDG-925, December 1989 |
| Decommissioned | 1 April 2005 |
| Status | Museum ship at Anping Port since 22 January 2009 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Gearing-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 3,460 long tons (3,516 t) full |
| Length | 390 ft 6 in (119.02 m) |
| Beam | 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 General Electric geared turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW) |
| Speed | 36.8 knots (68.2 km/h; 42.3 mph) |
| Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | 367 |
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USS Sarsfield (DD-837), was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She then served in Taiwan's navy as ROCS Te Yang (DD-925) for 27 years, and now is a ship museum.