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Chinese ship Jinan

list of ships with the same or similar names

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ106651929 ↗
Source-derived summary

A number of vessels of the People's Liberation Army Navy have borne the name Jinan, after the provincial capital Jinan.

Chinese escort ship Jinan (217), a Type D escort ship captured by the PLAN in 1950.

Chinese destroyer Jinan (105), a Type 051 destroyer. Now a museum ship in Qingdao.

Chinese destroyer Jinan (152), a Type 052C destroyer, in service since 2014.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Chinese ship Jinan” as list of ships with the same or similar names. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chinese, ship and Jinan.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chinese, ship and Jinan providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q106651929. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1950 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chinese ship Jinan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.