ROCS Yueh Fei (岳飛, FFG-1106), is a Cheng Kung-class

Cheng Kung class frigate

The Cheng Kung class frigates are based upon the U.S. Oliver Hazard Perry class and are currently serving in the Republic of China Navy...

 guided-missile frigate

Frigate

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 of the Republic of China

Republic of China

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 Navy

Republic of China Navy

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. Yueh Fei was laid down on 5 September 1992 by the China SB Corp.

CSBC Corporation, Taiwan

CSBC Corporation, Taiwan , CSBC for short, formerly known as China Shipbuilding Corporation is a state-owned enterprise of the Republic of China...

, in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Taiwan

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, launched

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 on 26 August 1994, and commissioned

Ship commissioning

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 in February 1996. She is the fourth ship of the Cheng Kung-class frigates.

As of 2005, Yueh Fei is home ported at ROCN Tso-Ying naval base.

Namesake

Yueh Fei is named after Yueh Fei (岳飛)

Yue Fei

Yue Fei , style name Pengju, was a military general of the Southern Song Dynasty. His ancestral home was in Xiaoti, Yonghe Village, Tangyin, Xiangzhou, Henan...

(1103–1142), who was a famous general

General

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 of the Southern Song Dynasty. He was famous for leading numerous successful defenses of the Southern Song Dynasty against invasions of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty

Jin Dynasty, 1115–1234

The Jīn Dynasty ; Khitan language: Nik, Niku; ; 1115–1234), also known as the Jurchen Dynasty, was founded by the Wanyan clan of the Jurchens, the ancestors of the Manchus who established the Qing Dynasty some 500 years later...

from north.