Kwei Yang    DDG  908

Status of  Kwei Yang as of Oct 2002.  
Kuei Yang's  Last Stop

TWINING Status; July 1999

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Email copy to Roger Myers from his friend Paul;

Roger,
 From the REPUBLIC OF CHINA (R.O.C.) TAIWAN NEWSWIRE, From Central News Agency (C.N.A.) Below is the notice of the decommissioning of USS Twining (Kuei Yang) and USS Mullaney(Ching Yang), Spelled slightly differently in chinese english then our version but this is indeed both of them. I have a note into my contact in Taiwan for info as to their intended fate.
Paul

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THREE VESSELS DECOMMISSIONED Keelung,  July  16 (CNA) The No. 548 Ta Tung auxiliary vessel was decommissioned  after having  served  33  years  and  a half  in the Republic of China of Navy. The  flag-lowering   ceremony  was  presided over by Rear-Admiral Chiang Hai-an  in this northern Taiwan port, which was also attended by    22 former   captains of   the   ship, including   former Commander-in-chief  of Navy   Ku  Chung-lien. The  No.  548  Ta Tung, the ROC Navy's first auxiliary craft  for deep-seas fishing  relief operations,  had  sailed around  250,000 nautical miles around  the  world.  Crew members of the vessel were elected model elite troops in 1971, 1986 and 1998.

In  addition, two  another navel Fletcher-class destroyers -- the "Kuei Yang"  (Twining) and  "Ching Yang" -- were also decommissioned after 26 years of services in the Navy in southern Taiwan port of Kaohsiung. The  Navy successfully launched its first missile from aboard the "Ching Yang"  on April 2 1975, and the locally developed Hsiung-Feng sea-to-sea missile  was  also blasted  off  for the first time from aboard the vessel in 1986.

The  Navy's  phasing-out  of  the three crafts is part of the ROC military's  "elite  troop policy,"  which  aims at  building  a new generation of military forces. (By Flor Wang)

 This page is prepared by CICC <http://www.taipei.org>

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