KIDD DDG 993

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

Kidd Class Destroyer Keel Laid 26 June 1978 for the Iranian Navy as KOUROUSH DD-933 Taken over by the US Navy By Executive order after the fall of the Shah in July 1979 Reclassified Guided Missile Destroyer (DDG) 8 August 1979 Launched 11 August 1979 USS KIDD DDG-993 Commissioned 27 June 1981 - Decommissioned 12 March 1998 Struck 12 March 1998 Placed into storage as a reserve warship at Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia ROCS ZUO YING DDG-1803 (Taiwanese Naval Service) (alt: 左營 / 左营 / ZUǑ YÍNG / ZUOYING / TSO YING / TSOYING) Sold to Taiwan 30 May 2003 "Her new name in ROCN service was originally planned to be CHI THE, which is a transliteration of "Kidd" into Chinese." (From Wikipedia) Commissioned 3 November 2006

"Nothing without hard work"

 

Conflicting History Data

NavSource incorrectly says this ship was renamed RCS KEELUNG DDG-1801 when it was actually USS SCOTT DDG-995 that was given that name.
The English (Kidd), English (Tso Ying), and Taiwanese versions of Wikipedia all agree the name given to USS KIDD is TSO YING (左營) DDG-1803.

NavSource's confusion might be due to fact that TSO YING was originally supposed to be the No. 1 destroyer but arrived in Taiwan late
due to her somewhat run-down condition from her storage.
As a result, USS SCOTT / ROCS KEELUNG became the first ship to arrive and thus the Taiwanese ship class was named after KEELUNG.
USS KIDD / ROCS TSO YING thus became the third ship of the KEELUNG class instead of the first ship of the TSO YING class.

Note on transliteration of Chinese glyphs to English (roman/latin) letters:
In the main section of Ship Name and Designation History, we provide the ship name in both a romanized alphabet and Chinese glyphs.
The primary name (ZUO YING) is given in separated Pinyin without diacritics. In the "(alt: xxx)" section, additional forms are provided:
(alt: 左營 / 左营 / ZUǑ YÍNG / ZUOYING / TSO YING / TSOYING)
(Traditional Chinese glyphs / Simplified Chinese glyphs / separated Pinyin with diacritics / concatenated Pinyin without diacritics / separated Wade-Giles / concatenated Wade-Giles)
Alas, you can find any of these versions used by sources - which makes text searches rather painful.]

 

Naval Covers

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1. USS Kidd DDG-993 Covers Page 1    (1981-1994)

 

Postmarks

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

Locy Type FDC 2-1(n) (D1, USS)

1981-06-27

Commissioning, cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

Locy Type FDC 2-1(n) (D1, USS)

1981-06-27

Commissioning, cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

Locy Type 2-1(n) (D1, USS)

1986-05-29

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Locy Type 2-1(n) (D1,USS)

1987-09-19

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Locy Type 2-1(n+) (D2,USS)

1994-07-04

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Locy Type 9-1(nu) (USS)

1987-09-19

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Locy Type LDC 2-1(n+)

1998-03-12

Decommissioning, Cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

Locy Type LDC 9(L)

1998-03-12

Decommissioning. Cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd Sr., USN (26 March 1884 - 7 December 1941).
On 7 December 1941, RAdm. Kidd was killed in action on board USS ARIZONA BB-39 during Japanese Navy’s Pearl Harbor attack. RAdm. Kidd was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the attack. He was the first flag officer to lose his life in World War II, and the first in the US Navy to meet death in action against any foreign enemy

Three ships of the US Navy have been named in his honor; USS KIDD DD-661, USS KIDD DD/DDG-993 and USS KIDD DDG-100.

 

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