Chinese ship Zheng He

For other uses, see Zhenghe.

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

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	170[2] Instructors: 30[2] Cadets: 200[2]
Armament	2 twin 57 mm[2] 2 twin 30 mm guns[2] 2 FQF 2500 12-tubed ASW mortars[2]

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]