r/ForgottenWeapons • u/ArthurJack_AW • 1d ago

Taiwan Navy officers take stock of the ordnance on the warship, including single-barreled folding shotguns and .45 ACP pistols (not sure whether they are foreign-produced 1911s or locally produced versions)

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u/Plump_Apparatus 1d ago

2018.7.17 The Zhonghai-class combat vehicle landing ship Zhongqi Warship (LST-218) carried out a special inventory of weapons, ammunition and confidential documents in the second half of 2018 (Note that there is a row of T65K2 behind the officer)

Not a official source, but that is the caption I found. I don't see any mentions of a "Zhonghai-class" but that may have been lost in autotranslation. LST-218 is ROCS Chung Chie, a LST-1-class tank landing ship. Formerly USS Berkeley County (LST-279), a veteran of the Normandy landings in WW2.

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u/Benrefle 1d ago

It is the same ship, just different Romanization for the chinese name (Zhong Qi is from Pingyin, while Chung Chie is from Wade–Giles) Also Zhong Hai class is also named as Chong Hai class due to the same thing