Landing Crafts of the Republic of China-Nanking Navy

Landing Crafts of the Republic of China-Nanking Navy

Landing ship

No.101 class landing ship

The Republic of China-Nanking, the Japanese puppet movement controlling a large amount of mainland China with the help of the Empire of Japan began an effort in the early years of 1950 to modernize and to expand its navy. As the Republic of China-Nanking Navy did not possess any tank landing ship the Imperial Japanese Navy offered to transferred one No.101 class landing ships to the Republic of China-Nanking Navy which was named Dagu Shan who was transferred in 1955 and which as of 1982 is assigned to the South Sea Fleet of the Republic of China-Nanking Navy.

Tank Landing Ship

Anhui-class Tank Landing Ship

In 1957, two years after the Empire of Japan had transferred one No.101 class landing ship to the Republic of China-Nanking Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1957 transferred three SK-class landing ships to the Republic of China-Nanking Navy who renamed the class as the Anhui-class Tank Landing Ship.

The first Anhui-class transferred to China-Nanking was the Anhui in 1961 followed by the Jiangxi and Hunan in 1962.

Guangxi-class Tank Landing Ship

In the early 1960s the Republic of China-Nanking Navy decided to supplement its fleet of three Anhui-class Tank Landing Ships and one No.101 class landing ship in China-Nanking service with four tank landing ships built in the Republic of China-Nanking. The Guangxi-class Tank Landing Ship which is based on the design of the Japanese SK-class landing ships where build under license at Guangzhou shipyard with the first ship in class, Guangxi being launched in 1971 and commissioned in 1974. Guangdong being launched in 1975 and commissioned in 1978. The remaining ships in class, Fujian and Zhejiang were launched in 1976 and commissioned in to the Republic of China-Nanking Navy in 1979.

High Speed Transport Ship

No.1 Class High Speed Transport Ship

With the introduction of the Type 4 Shanghai destroyer in late 1960s as the replacement of the four ex-Japanese Matsu class destroyers, the Japanese had sold to the Republic of China-Nanking in the late 1940s it was decided instead of scrapping them to convert two of them in to high speed transports vessels.The two Matsu class destroyers who were selected to be converted where the Henan and Hubei who began their conversion at Dalian shipyard in 1965 and which saw their aft 1x2 inch/40 caliber guns and their depth charge throwers removed in order to free the aft deck up for two small landing craft. In 1967 the Henan and Hubei we re-commissioned and as of 1982 serve with the South Sea Fleet of the Republic of China-Nanking Navy