Taiwan Media: The Taiwan Navys Xinjiang Ship will be retired 23 years later

Taiwan media reports that after 23 years of service, the Taiwan Navy's Xinjiang Ship will retire on the 1st of next month, and the military will hold a removal ceremony for this.

According to the Taiwan Freedom Times Sunday (April 16), the Xinjiang Ship belongs to the Taiwan Navy's Jinjiang -class patrol ship.The Navy produced 12 Jinjiang -class patrol ships including Xinjiang Ship from 1993 to 2000.

With the more advanced Qiangjiang -class patrol ship's original ship service in 2015, and after entering the mass production stage since 2019, the Taiwan Navy has successively eliminated and replaced the replacement and replacement.The Jinjiang -class patrol ship was retired in February 2021, and the other two were retired in November and December last year.

After the Xinjiang Ship retired, the Taiwan Navy also had eight Jinjiang -class ships.