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Military


Type 051 Luda-class guided missile destroyer

Ships

PennantNameBuilderHomeportFleetLaunchCompleteDate of
Service
de-commnotes
Luda I
106Xinan / Xian LudaYuchiNorth19711972
1974
29 Sep
2007
Static Training Vessel
107YinchuanLudaYuchiNorth197226 Nov
1974

1976
18 Oct
2012
Preserved (Museum)
108Xining LudaYuchiNorth19731974
1980
28 Sep
2013
Stricken
110DalianLudaYuchiNorth19741975
1984
May
2019
2012 : In Service
2016 : Stricken ???
111...Luda...North............Construction stopped halfway
through insufficient funds
131NanjingZhonghuaDalianEast19791980
1977
26 Sep
2012
to China Maritime Safety Supervision Corps as marine police ship
132HefeiZhonghuaDalianEast19791981
1980
20 Oct
2012
2012 : to the Naval Aeronautical Engineering College for teaching
133ChongqingZhonghuaDalianEast19801982
1983
26 Sep
2014
stricken
134Zunyi ZhonghuaDalianEast


1984
May
2019
2012 : In Service
2016 : Stricken ???
135...Zhonghua...North............Construction stopped halfway
through insufficient funds
160GuangzhouSouth28 Aprl
1971

1974
09 Mar
1978
1978 : sunk in explosion
161ChangshaGuangzhouZhanjiangSouth19811983
1975
28 Aug
2008
sunk as target
162NanningGuangzhouZhanjiangSouth19811983
1979
26 Sep
2012
stricken
163NanchangGuangzhouZhanjiangSouth19821984
1982
28 Aug
2008
12 Sep
2016
sunk as target, or transferred to Nanchang
164GuilinGuangzhouZhanjiangSouth19831985
1987
May
2019
2004 : transferred from South Fleet to North Fleet
2016 : Stricken ???
165ZhanjiangGuangzhouZhanjiangSouth
1989
28 Aug
2020
2012 : In Service
2016 : Stricken ??
Luda II
105JinanLudaYuchiNorth30 Jul
1970
01 Dec
1972

197
30 Nov
2007
1987 : modified
Preserved (Museum)
109KaifengLudaYuchiNorth19741975
1982
May
2019
1990 : modified
2012 : In Service
2016 : Stricken ???
Luda III
166
168
ZhuhaiGuangzhouSouth19901991
1991
28 Aug
2020
2012 : In Service
2016 : Stricken?!
2016 : Stricken ???

As usual, seemingly reliable sources offer wildly different chronologies.

In particular, it is annoying that the "date of service" [from an apparently reliable Chinese source] frequntly reports dates prior to "complete" dates reported by Western sources. Any number of explanations could apply, though none is obvious.



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