A discharge ceremony takes locations for a 1,000-ton corvette at a naval port within the southeastern metropolis of Jinhae, Friday, on this picture supplied by the Navy. Yonhap
The Navy’s 1,000-ton Gwangmyeong corvette is about to retire subsequent week after 36 years in service defending the nation’s coastal space, the armed service stated Friday.
Forward of the Pohang-class warship’s official retirement Wednesday, the Navy held a ceremony marking its discharge earlier within the day at a naval base in Jinhae, some 310 kilometers southeast of Seoul, based on the Navy.
Commissioned in 1990, the warship served as a core naval asset, outfitted with 76 mm and 40 mm shells, anti-ship missiles and light-weight torpedoes.
Notably, the corvette efficiently tracked down a North Korean semi-submarine boat that had infiltrated waters off Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, for about seven hours earlier than sinking it with naval gunfire in 1998.
The Navy stated it has deployed a 2,500-ton Incheon-class, 3,100-ton Daegu-class and the brand new 3,600-ton Chungnam-class frigates to safeguard their assigned waters to exchange the outgoing warships.
