Taiwan Navy ROCS Lan Yang Retired

The Chi Yang-class frigate ROCS Lan Yang (FFG-935) was decommissioned on 23 January 2025 in a low-key ceremony at the Navy's Xinbin wharf in Kaohsiung, presided over by the commander of the Fleet Command, the Liberty Times reported. The ship, the former USS Joseph Hewes (FF-1078), was a Knox-class frigate commissioned into the US Navy in 1971, leased to Taiwan in 1994 and later sold outright. She was the first of the class to carry a Taiwanese place name and served almost 30 years, logging some 438,000 nautical miles, according to the same report. NavSource records her as decommissioned and awaiting disposal.