North Sea Fleet

North Sea Fleet
The People's Liberation Army Navy jack and ensign|border
Active	1950–Present
Country	People's Republic of China
Allegiance	Communist Party of China
Branch	People's Liberation Army Navy
Type	Naval fleet
Garrison/HQ	Qingdao Naval Base, China
Commanders
Current commander	Vice Admiral Yuan Yubai
Insignia
Identification symbol	100px

The North Sea Fleet (NSF) is one of three fleets of the People's Liberation Army Navy. In September 1950 the PLA Second Field Army XI redesignated the Qingdao Army Base as a naval base. Following the departure of the Soviet Navy from Lüshunkou (Port Arthur), the North Sea Fleet was established in 1960 with naval bases in Qingdao and Lüshunkou.

It includes nuclear-powered submarines: five Han class attack submarines and China's single Xia class submarine ballistic missile submarine, all based at Qingdao.

The NSF has historically received primacy during the allocation of the destroyers and frigates, as its role was to be coastal defence of north east China (including Beijing) against any amphibious attacks by Russia. However, unlike the East Sea and South Sea Fleets, it has never been involved in combat.

Major naval bases

The fleet headquarters is located at Qingdao, with other major naval bases at:

• Lüshunkou
• Huludao

Ships

The flagship of the fleet is the Harbin (112), a Luhu class destroyer.

Destroyers

• 2 Luzhou-Class:
  • Shenyang (115)
  • Shijiazhuang (116)
• 2 Luhu-Class:
  • Harbin (112)
  • Qingdao (113)
• 2 Luda-Class
  • Kaifeng (109)
  • Dalian (110)

Frigates

• 4 Jiangkai II-Class:
  • Yantai (538)
  • Yancheng (546)
  • Linyi (547)
  • Weifang (550)
• 3 Jiangwei II-Class:
  • Huludao (565)
  • Luoyang (527)
  • Mianyang (528)
• 1 Jianghu III-Class:
  • Changzhou (537)

Corvettes

• 4 Jiangdao-Class:
  • Datong (580)
  • Yingkou (581)
  • Weihai (590)
  • Fushun (591)

Nuclear submarines

• 4 Han-class SSNs:
  • ChangZheng 2 (402)
  • ChangZheng 3 (403)
  • ChangZheng 4 (404)
  • ChangZheng 5 (405)
• 1 Xia-class SSBN:
  • ChangZheng 6 (406)

Diesel-electric submarines

• At least 15, and possibly up to 20 Ming and Romeo submarines

Landing ships

• 2 Yuting III-class LST:
  • Tianzhu Shan (911)
  • Daqing Shan (912)
• 3 Yuting II-class LST:
  • Yandang Shan (908)
  • Jiuhua Shan (909)
  • Huanggang Shan (910)

See also

• East Sea Fleet
• South Sea Fleet
• Beiyang Fleet of the Qing navy from 1875-1898

External links

• GlobalSecurity.org
• SinoDefence.com