Chinese ship Zheng He
Chinese training ship
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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.[2]
Zheng He (foreground) at Visakhapatnam, India, in 2014 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 China | |
| Name | Zheng He |
| Namesake | Zheng He[1] |
| Builder | Qiuxing, Shanghai[2] |
| Launched | 12 July 1986[2] |
| Commissioned | 27 April 1987[2] |
| In service | 1987-Present |
| Identification | Hull number: 81[2] |
| Status | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Training ship |
| Displacement | 5558 tons (full)[2] |
| Length | 130 m (430 ft)[2] |
| Beam | 16 m (52 ft)[2] |
| Draft | 4.8 m (16 ft)[2] |
| Propulsion | 2 SEMT-Pielstick 6PC2-5L diesels, 2 shafts, 6.73 MW[2] |
| Speed | 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)[2] |
| Range | 5,000 nautical miles (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 15 kn[2] |
| Complement | |
| Armament | |
Zheng He was the first domestically designed and built oceangoing training ship.[1] Its visit to Pearl Harbor in 1989 was the PLA's first port visit to the United States since 1949.[3]
The ship circumnavigated Earth between April to September 2012.[4] When the ship left Dalian on 17 April, it was expected to be the first such voyage by a lone Chinese training vessel.[1]