USS Robert E. Peary (FF-1073)
[1] The Knox-class design was derived from the Brooke class modified to extend range and without a long-range missile system.The ships were equipped with a torpedo-carrying DASH drone helicopter; its telescoping hangar and landing pad were positioned amidships aft of the mack.[4] Following two months of miscellaneous tests and trials along the northern Pacific coast of the United States, she steamed into her home port at Long Beach, California, 8 November.Robert E. Peary remained in the Long Beach area for one year exactly, departing for WestPac 9 November 1973, and arriving in Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, ten days later.[1][5] The destroyer escort was renamed Chi Yang by the Taiwanese Navy and served with the identification number FF-932.