MilitaryChinese ship Zheng He
Auxiliary Shipconfirmed
Zheng He is a Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy training ship. Its NATO reporting name is Daxin. The ship is a Naval Academy unit based with the North Sea Fleet. Zheng He was the first domestically designed and built oceangoing training ship. Its visit to Pearl Harbor in 1989 was the PLA's first port visit to the United States since 1949. The ship circumnavigated Earth between April to September 2012. When the ship left Dalian on 17 April, it was expected to be the first such voyage by a lone Chinese training vessel.
Specifications
| Type | Auxiliary Ship |
| Manufacturer | Qiuxing, Shanghai |
| Introduced | 1987 |
| Status | In service |
| Length | 130 m |
| Speed | 15 kn |
| Range | 5,000 nmi |
| Crew | 170 |
| Displacement | 5,558 t |
| Main armament | 2 twin 57 mm * 2 twin 30 mm guns * 2 FQF 2500 12-tubed ASW mortars |
Operators
| Country | Quantity | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| China | — | confirmed |
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