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Summary: Like people, warships have names. The combat ships of the People’s Navy are all named after place names. If you see a ship named after your hometown, you will definitely feel very happy, then let’s talk about the naming rules of the People’s Navy.
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Like people, warships have names. The combat ships of the People’s Navy are all named after place names. If you see a ship named after your hometown, you will definitely feel very happy, then let’s talk about the naming rules of the People’s Navy.
What rules does the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy use to name warships?
Generally speaking, the training ships of the People’s Navy are named after ancient navigators or famous naval admirals, such as “Shichang” and “Zheng He”, and scientific test ships are named after scientists, such as “Li Siguang”, “Hua Luogeng” No. In addition to the small ships numbered by numbers, all ships with ship names are named after place names.
According to the ship naming regulations introduced in 1986, a class of ships, that is, ships above the cruiser level, are now aircraft carriers: they are named after provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions, such as “Liaoning” and “Shandong”;
Destroyers are usually named after cities, and they are named after provincial capitals, sub-provincial cities, cities under separate state planning and some larger prefecture-level cities, such as “Jinan” (Type 052C), “Xi’an” (Type 052C), “Dalian” (type 055), “Changchun” (type 052C), “Qingdao” (type 052), “Shenzhen” (type 051B), “Ningbo” (Soviet-Russian 956EM4 modern class), ” Zhanjiang” (Type 051C), etc.
Frigates include light frigates and anti-submarine frigates, usually named after prefecture-level cities and county-level cities, such as “Linyi” (Type 054A), “Ma’anshan” (Type 054A), “Tongling” (Type 053H2G), “Xiangtan” ” (Type 054A), “Weihai” (Type 056), etc.
Minesweeper ships were originally named after counties and towns, such as “Gutian”, “Zaozhuang”, “Zhoucun”, “Zhangdian”, “Changxindian” and so on.
Large-scale landing ships, mainly dock landing ships and tank landing ships, are mainly named after mountains, such as “Taihang Mountain”, “Jinggangshan”, “Dabie Mountain”, “Funiu Mountain”, “Qilian Mountain”, “Wuzhi Mountain” , “Dingjun Mountain” and so on.
Medium-sized landing ships are usually named after rivers, such as “Yellow River”, “Liaohe”, “Fenhe”, “Luanhe”, “Huaihe” and so on.
Small landing craft: named after the villages and towns in the old revolutionary base areas and base areas, such as “Nianzhuang”, “Chenji”, “Cheqiao”, “Weigang”, etc. Later, due to the increasing number of such small ships, they were cancelled. The Chinese ship name is changed to the numerical designation (hull number).
Other small ships, such as gunboats, high-speed escorts, and small minesweepers, do not have Chinese ship names, but only three-digit or four-digit hull numbers to name them.
Ocean-going supply ships are usually named after lakes, such as “Hulun Lake”, “Taihu”, “Hongze Lake”, “Qiandao Lake”, “Weishan Lake”, “Qinghai Lake”, “Poyang Lake” ” etc.
The naming of hospital ships is relatively complicated. In the early days, there was the “Nankang”, and the original “Zhuanghe” was used for the modified civilian ships of COSCO Group. Later, like other logistics ships, the first Chinese character of the fleet to which they belonged + the first Chinese character of the purpose + the number was adopted, such as “Beijing Medical 01”, the hospital ship of the Beihai Fleet number 01. Finally, the island is named after the island, such as “Changxing Island”, and the People’s Navy’s most famous hospital ship “Peace Ark”, in fact, this is just an informal nickname, the official name of the ship is “Daishan Island”.
In addition, there is an unwritten rule for the names of the ships of the People’s Navy. For the ships of the North Sea Fleet, the names of the fourteen provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) in North China, Northeast China and Northwest China are used; , autonomous regions) plus the place names of Xinjiang; the fencing of the South China Sea Fleet listens to the place names of South China and nine southwestern provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions).
However, this is not absolute. Because with the completion and service of a large number of naval ships, the names of many new ships are not enough, especially the destroyers named after big cities. The range of choices is relatively small, so this regulation cannot be strictly followed. For example, the “Nanchang”, the first ship of the 0.55 million-ton large-scale expedition, belongs to the North Sea Fleet, but it used the name of the East China region that should have been the East China Sea Fleet.
In addition to place names, there are some special cases in the naming of ships of the People’s Navy. For example, a sailing training ship of the Dalian Naval Academy is called “Breaking Waves”.
There are also electronic reconnaissance ships, which did not have Chinese ship names in the early days, and were named after the first Chinese character of their fleet + the first Chinese character of their purpose + numbering pattern, such as Beidiao No. 900; later, they were named after constellations, and later named after stars. , such as “Sirius”, “Polaris”, “Dawning Star”, “Kaiyang Star” and so on.
Other logistics ships, such as tugboats, small oil tankers, water supply ships, degaussing ships, transportation ships, rescue ships, etc., generally do not have Chinese ship names, and are named after the first Chinese character of their fleet + the first Chinese character of their purpose + numbering pattern. , such as Beituo No. 710, Dongyou No. 626, Beiqin No. 735, Dongjiao No. 82, Nanjiu No. 502, etc.
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