Daegu-class destroyer

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox ship | infobox_caption = |section1={{Infobox ship/image | image = USS Wallace L. Lind (DD-703) underway in April 1970 (NH 107164).jpg | image_caption = ROKS ''Daegu'' as USS ''Wallace L. Lind'' }}

|section2={{Infobox ship/class overview | name = ''Daegu'' | builders = *Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company *Bath Iron Works | operators = {{navy|South Korea}} | class_before = ''Chungbuk'' class | class_after = ''Kangwon'' class | total_ships_planned = 2 | built_range = 1943-1944 | total_ships_on_order = | total_ships_completed = 2 | total_ships_active = | in_commission_range = 1973-1994 | total_ships_retired = 2 | subclasses = ''Allen M. Sumner'' class | total_ships_scrapped = | total_ships_preserved = }}

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The '''''Daegu''''' '''class''' was a class of 2 destroyers by the Republic of Korea Navy. They entered service in 1973, with the last one being decommissioned in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-05-14|title=해군의 섬너급 구축함|url=http://www.defensetoday.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=937|access-date=2021-06-15|website=디펜스투데이|language=ko}}</ref>

== History == These were ships used by the US Navy during World War II and were modernized in electronics and weaponry during FRAM II. They were once magnificent ships, which throughout the 1970s constituted the backbone of the Republic of Korea Navy as a replacement for ''Chungmu'' class destroyers. Eventually, they were deemed too outdated. However, they remained in service until well into the 1990s, when they were downright obsolete. They were all leased till 1977 then bought by the navy.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-06-29|title=The South Korean Navy (ROKN)|url=https://www.naval-encyclopedia.com/cold-war/south-korean-navy-rokn|access-date=2021-06-15|website=naval encyclopedia|language=en-US}}</ref>

They received two destroyers of the ''Allen M. Sumner'' class for the Republic of Korea Navy from the US in 1973 as part of the American Military Assistance Program. More were later leased over in later years.{{Citation needed|date=March 2026}}

They were all put out of service between 1973 till 1994.{{Citation needed|date=March 2026}}

== Ships in the class == {| class="wikitable" !Pennant !Name !Builders !Laid down !Launched !Commissioned !Decommissioned |- |DD-17 / DD-917 |''Daegu'' |Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |14 February 1944 |14 June 1944 |4 December 1973 |1994-12-30 |- |DD-18 / DD-918 |''Incheon'' |Bath Iron Works |9 August 1943 |9 January 1944 |5 December 1973 |1994-12-30 |}

==See also== * List of destroyer classes

'''Equivalent destroyers of the same era''' * {{sclass|Perth|destroyer|4}} * {{sclass|Minegumo|destroyer|4}} * {{sclass|Fante|destroyer|4}} * Type 82 * {{sclass|Mod Kashin|destroyer|4}}

== Citations == <references />

Category:Destroyer classes Category:Dae Gu-class destroyers Category:Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Republic of Korea Navy