Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy's tank landing ship “Chung Hai” at Keelung, 28th October 1980
Builder: American Bridge Co., Ambridge, Pennsylvania
Displacements: 1,653 standard, 2,080 full load
Length overall: 100 m
Draft: 4.3 m
Engines: 2 x General Motors diesels, 1,700 b.h.p., twin screw.
Speed: 11.6 knots
Complement: c.100
Laid down 20 May 1944
Commissioned into the US Navy 3 August 1944 as USS LST-755
Decommissioned 29 May 1946
Sold to Taiwan 12 March 1948
Renumbered 697 in “late-1980” (i.e., shortly after this photo was taken)
Decommissioned 2010. Laid up at at Kaohsiung; after a failed attempt to have her converted to a museum ship was finally scrapped in 2018