Republic of Korea Navy
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The Republic of Korea Navy, also known as the ROK Navy or South Korean Navy, is the naval warfare service branch of the South Korean armed forces, responsible for naval and amphibious operations. The ROK Navy includes the Republic of Korea Marine Corps, which functions as a branch of the Navy. The ROK Navy has about 70,000 regular personnel including 29,000 Republic of Korea Marines. There are about 140 commissioned ships in the ROK Navy. The naval aviation force consists of about 70 fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. The ROK Marine Corps has about 300 tracked vehicles including assault amphibious vehicles.
ROKS Baekdusan (PC 701), the first warship of the ROK Navy, undergoing refitting at Hawaii in March 1950
A ROKN sailor places a S. Korean naval ensign on a torpedo boat, after its transfer by the U.S. in the midst of the Korean War.
Ex-USN Cannon-class destroyer escorts transferred to the ROK Navy at Boston in 1956
USS PC-823
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USS PC-823 PC-461-class submarine chaser laid down on 2 June 1943 at the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin; launched on 15 January 1944; and commissioned on 24 July 1944.
ROKS Baekdusan with South Korean flag painted on the side of the ship's superstructure in the 1950s
A Protestant minister delivers blessings on the newly-christened Bak Du San.
Fantail of the Bak Du San the day the ship transferred from the USN to the RoK Navy in 1949.
Korean naval officers raising a flag on the ship Bak Du San at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1949