Type_920_hospital_ship
Chinese hospital ship Daishan Dao
Chinese hospital ship
Daishan Dao is a Type 920 hospital ship of the People's Liberation Army Navy of the People's Republic of China. Daishan Dao is also known as Peace Ark during peacetime,[1] and has received NATO reporting name Anwei class (meaning comfort).[2][3][4][5]
Hospital ship 866 (Peace Ark) | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 China | |
| Name | |
| Namesake | Daishan Island |
| Builder | CSIC (Guangzhou Shipyard International Company Limited) |
| Launched | 2007 |
| Commissioned | December 22, 2008 |
| Status | in active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | approximately 14,000 tons |
| Length | 178 metres |
| Beam | approximately 25 metres |
| Propulsion | twin engines |
| Aircraft carried | Z-8JH (27 passengers or 15 stretchers) |
| Aviation facilities | hangar |
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Daishan Dao is the lead ship and the only ship in her class, Type 920 hospital ship.
The ship was launched in 2007 with the stated intention of giving China a platform to provide a better means to providing quicker humanitarian response to disasters around the world, but others contend it also allows China to extend the navy's blue water capabilities.[6]
On 1 September 2010, the hospital ship embarked on a three-month "Harmonious Mission 2010" to the Gulf of Aden with a total of 428 officers including 100 medical workers. En route she visited and provided medical treatment to the local people of Djibouti, Tanzania, Kenya, the Seychelles and Bangladesh.[1][7]
During "Harmonious Mission 2011", Peace Ark visited Cuba, Costa Rica, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, the first Chinese voyage to the Caribbean.[7]
In June 2013, Peace Ark visited Brunei.[8]: 162
In November 2013, she was deployed to Tacloban, Philippines to assist in the recovery from Typhoon Haiyan.[9]
Peace Ark also participated as part of the Chinese contribution to Exercise RIMPAC 2014 in addition to the United States hospital ship USNS Mercy.[10]
During "Harmonious Mission 2015", Peace Ark visited Australia, Barbados, French Polynesia, Grenada, Mexico, Peru, and the United States.Timeline 2010--2019
In 2017, Peace Ark traveled to Djibouti (treating 7,841 Djiboutians), Sierra Leone, Gabon, Republic of Congo (treating 7,508 Congolese), Angola, Mozambique (treating 9,881 Mozambiquans), and Tanzania (treating 6,421 Tanzanians).[11]: 284
Daishan Dao is the sole ship of its class, and is assigned pennant number 866. She is assigned to the South Sea Fleet and based out of Zhoushan in Zhejiang province. She has a capacity of 300 beds, 20 ICU beds, 8 operating theatres, and can perform 40 major surgeries a day, in addition to X-ray, ultrasound, CT, hypothermia, hemodialysis, traditional Chinese medicine, and dental facilities.[10][12] She is also equipped with a remote networking and communications system to allow teleconferencing with doctors and specialists on land.[10]
In accordance with the Geneva Conventions, Daishan Dao and her crew do not carry any offensive weapons, while the ship is painted white with red crosses to mark her as a hospital ship.[10]
- Peace Ark during Rim of the Pacific 2016.
- The computerized tomography (CT) scan aboard the Peace Ark
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- Other PLAN hospital ships:
- 832 Nanyun and 833 Nankang - two Nankang-class hospital ship are 2150-ton modified Qiongsha class attack transport ships built in the 1980s and similar size to small passenger ships; has a helipad at the stern; built in Guangzhou and remains in service in the South Sea Fleet[6]
- Y832 (Bei Kang) and Y834 (Dong Kang) - stationed at North Sea Fleet and East Sea Fleet
- 82 Shichang - 9 500 ton part-time hospital ship built in 1997 as multi-role aviation training ship and can be reclassified as hospital ship/defense mobilization ship with modular units added;[6] deck space can accommodate modular units for treatment centre and wards; supports two helipads
- 865 Zhuanghe - (approximately 30,000 ton) converted container ship with 14 modular medical units, heli pad and control tower; likely based at Sanya, Hainan Island
- Project 320 Ob' Class Hospital Ship - a retired Russian hospital ship (1980–1997) was purchased in 2007 with plans to restore it for PLAN service as hospital ship; built at Adolf Warski Shipyard in the 1980s
- United States Navy 70,000 tons Mercy-class hospital ship:
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- "PLANS recognition guide 2018". July 16, 2018.
- "PLANS recognition guide 2019". February 19, 2020.
- "PLANS recognition guide 2020". February 19, 2020.
- http://china-defense.blogspot.com/2010/06/chinas-growing-maritime-hadr.doc China Growing Maritime...
- Loh, Dylan M.H. (2024). China's Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503638204.
- "Chinese hospital ship Peace Ark's on 'friendship' mission to Philippines". South China Morning Post. November 21, 2013.
- "Peace Ark: Onboard China's Hospital Ship". UNSI. July 23, 2014.
- Shinn, David H.; Eisenman, Joshua (2023). China's Relations with Africa: a New Era of Strategic Engagement. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-21001-0.
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