Another Pohang Corvette transferred to the new owner

On November 26, at the South Korean Naval Base Jinhae-gu (Changwon) there was a ceremony of handing over to the Peru Navy a Pohang Corvette Suncheon (PCC 767) withdrawn from service 2 years ago.

The ship received a new Peruvian name BAP Guise (CM 28), becoming the fifth ship in the Peruvian Navy named after the first commander of the Peruvian Navy, Rear Admiral Martin Jorge Guise. The ship has gone to Peru. on the same day and after visiting several ports in the Pacific, it should arrive at Callao on 4 January 2022.

The ship was handed over to Peru free of charge as part of military aid. Prior to the transfer of the Pohang-type corvette, it underwent a major hull renovation, mechanical and electrical repairs. The MTU 125V956 TB 82 diesel engines and the GE LM 2500 gas turbine were dismantled and reviewed and extended. The ship's anti-ship missile system was removed, as well as South Korean electronic combat systems and ZOP torpedo launchers. Earlier in 2015, South Korea had already donated Peru a corvette of this type Gyeongju (PCC 758), which is part of the Peruvian fleet (or actually the Coast Guard which is part of it) as BAP Ferre (CM 27).

Corvette Suncheon was built at Hanjin Heavy Industry Co. Ltd. in Busan and transferred to service in September 1988 and withdrawn from the fleet on December 24, 2019. Like Gyeongju, is one of 24 corvettes type Pohang with a standard displacement of about 1260 tons, built in several modifications by South Korean shipyards in the 1980s and early 1990s. Current BAP Guise belongs to the series Flight IV That kind of thing.

Since 2009 ships of type Pohang are withdrawn from service – so far it has been done with 13 ships. Prototype Pohang is currently used as a muse-ship in the town of Pohang, from which it took its name. Of the decommissioned ships, in addition to corvettes Gyeongju and Suncheon transferred to Peru, Corvettes Gimcheon (PCC 761) and Yeosu (PCC 756) in 2017-2018 were handed over to Vietnam, Jinju (PCC 763) was handed over to Egypt in 2017, Ixan (PCC 768) was transmitted to Colombia, and Chungju (PCC 762) and Andong (PCC 771) was transferred to the Philippines.

Written by TW