PLA(N):
Liaoning (17) entering Hong Kong waters, July 2017
Museum ships at the PLA Navy Museum in Qingdao, Shandong Province
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Jinan, a Type 051 DDG, the first class of DDGs to be designed, and built in China and fielded by the PLAN. Formerly with the North Sea Fleet, comissioned in 1971, refitted in 1987, retired in 2007, became a museum ship in 2008.
531
Yingtan, Class 053K Air Defense Frigate, Launched in 1971, Comissioned in 1975, Decomissioned in 1994 and became a museum ship afterwards.
101
Anshan, formerly
Rekordny, one of 29
Gnevy-class destroyers built for the Soviet Navy. Laid down in 1936, transferred to the PLAN in 1955, reclassified as a missile destroyer in 1974, stricken from the PLAN register in 1986, became a museum ship in 1992.
53-219
Changjiang (Yangzte), a
荣誉/
Honor class river gunboat, built by Kiangnan Dock and Engineering with their experience building the
USS Guam (later USS Wake). Changjiang was formerly named the
民权号 (
Civil Rights) under the KMT, being comissioned in 1930. She saw action during the Second Sino-Japanese war, with the Japanese forces bombing her multiple times.
The
民权号 was captured in 1949 after retreating to Chongqing when the Communists captured said city, and was put into service in the fledgling PLAN afterwards. She was then renamed into the
Changjiang, and was given the pennant number of 227 in 1961.
Changjiang was refitted in 1966, with her original armament of either:
- A: A 120mm gun, a 105mm gun, a 57mm flak gun and several 20mm guns
- B: 2 76mm guns, 4 rapid-fire 40mm guns, and 4 25mm dual-purpose guns
Being replaced by a pair of indigenous Type 61 Dual 37mm autocannons, one on the fore and one on the aft, and 4 indigenous Type 61 Dual 25mm guns. She was also changed from burning coal, to burning fuel.
In 1968,
Changjiang was given her current pennant number of 53-219, and was retired from active service, becoming a museum ship.
Changzheng 1, the first Nuclear Submarine developed in China, commissioned in 1974. Seen here as the mueseum ship she is at the Qingdao PAL Navy Museum