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Column headings include: "Type" (i.e. Chinese class designation), the types "NATO designation", the ships "Pennant number" (or hull number), the ships name in English and Chinese (Han 中文), ships "Displacement" in tonnes, and the "Fleet" in which it serves (e.g. North Sea Fleet, South Sea Fleet and East Sea Fleet).
This is a list of Chinese naval vessels from the Qing Dynasty to the end of World War II (1644-1945), including vessels of the Imperial Chinese Navy (1875-1912), the Republican Beiyang Fleet (1912-1928) and the Republic of China Navy (1924-1945):
A 19th century ukiyo-e by Kuniyoshi depicting the ships of the great sea expedition sent around 219 BC by the first Chinese Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, to find the legendary home of the immortals, the Mount Penglai, and retrieve the elixir of immortality. The Han dynasty established the first independent naval force in China, the Tower Ship Navy.
The main anti-ship armament consists of YJ-83 sea-skimming anti-ship cruise missiles in two twin-cell launchers. The primary anti-aircraft armament is one FL-3000N short range missile system with 8 rounds. A 76 mm main gun based on a Russian AK-176 is mounted forward. 2 triple torpedo tubes are mounted for ASW operations. Type 056 is the first ...
One of the central characters in the 1949 film Down to the Sea in Ships has the given name "Bering" due to having been born in a ship crossing the Bering Sea. [ 35 ] The 2002 supernatural thriller, Ghost Ship , directed by Steve Beck , follows a marine salvage crew in the Bering Sea who discover the lost Italian ocean liner, Antonia Graza that ...
China has launched a new amphibious assault ship, named the Sichuan, which is capable of launching fighter jets and is designed to compete with U.S. military strength in the seas.
In July, China anchored one of its two "Monster" ships — the world's largest-ever coast guard vessels displacing 12,000 tons each — in the Philippines' exclusive economic zone.
The Republic of China Navy is the maritime branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces.The ROC Navy's primary mission is to defend ROC territories and the sea lanes that surround Taiwan against a blockade, attack, or possible invasion by the People's Liberation Army Navy of the People's Republic of China.