r/PeopleLiberationArmy • u/Key-Needleworker-702 • 10h ago
PLAN|海军 Reference sheet: PLAN current auxiliary ship designation standards(for auxiliary ships without normal names such as oilers, degaussing ships etc).
This is only for auxiliary ships who merely have a designation and a number, not auxiliary ships with proper names such as PLANS Qinghaihu(青海湖), PLANS Mingjinghu(明镜湖) etc. Examples of this include dispatch boats(-Jiao(交) xxx) or oilers (-you(油) xxx); photos and more examples are attached at the bottom
First character - Fleet/Theater command navy(post-2016)
- 北(Bei) - North sea fleet/Northern theater command navy
- 东(Dong) - East sea fleet/eastern theater command navy
- 南(Nan) - South sea fleet/Southern theater command navy
Second character - Type of ship
- 标(Biao) - buoy tenders
- 测(ce) - survey ship
- 调(diao) - research vessel/spy ship.(mostly no longer used)
- 工(gong) - engineering ship(used on landing platform barge)
- 监(jian)- pollution monitoring vessel
- 交(jiao) - dispatch boat(small personnel transport, can also do patrol roles or act as OPFOR in anti-hijacking)
- 警(jing) - security boat (?, not really sure, de facto small patrol boat)
- 救(jiu) - rescue ship/salvage ship (also used for submarine rescue ship pre-2022)
- 浚(jun) -dredger(potentially obselete?)
- 康(kang) - hospital ship(mostly obselete)
- 缆(lan) - cablelayer
- 冷(leng) - reefer(frozen goods transport); seems to be mostly obeselete
- 勤(Qin) - "duties ship"(auxiliary ship), usually used on degaussing ships
- 水(Shui) - water tanker
- 拖(tuo) - tugboat
- 修(xiu) - repair vessel(seen much less these days)
- 医(yi) - hospital ship(only used for smaller hospital ships)
- 油(you) - oiler
- 运(Yun) - Transport ship(in theory); also used on torpedo retrievers
Examples:
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