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Beituo 715-class tug

Class overview
Operators	People's Liberation Army Navy
General characteristics
Class and type	Beituo 715
Type	Tugboat
Tonnage	211 long tons (214 t)
Displacement	166 long tons (169 t)
Length	27.03 m (88 ft 8 in)
Beam	6.8 m (22 ft 4 in)
Draught	2.2 m (7 ft 3 in)
Depth	3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)
Decks	1
Propulsion	1 × 8170 marine diesel engine, 500 hp (373 kW) 1 × 6134 marine diesel engine, 160 hp (119 kW)
Electronic warfare & decoys	None
Armament	Unarmed
Aircraft carried	None
Aviation facilities	None

Beituo 715 class tug is a class of little known naval auxiliary ship currently in service with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).^[1] The name of this class is after the first unit commissioned, with the exact type still remains unknown, and since the commission of the first unit in 1980, a total of seven of this class have been confirmed in active service as of mid-2010s.^[1] This class of tug is a single hull and single deck design, with deck covers.^[1]

Beituo 715 class series ships in PLAN service are designated by a combination of two Chinese characters followed by three-digit number. The second Chinese character is Tuo (拖), meaning tug in Chinese, because these ships are classified as tugboats. The first Chinese character denotes which fleet the ship is service with, with East (Dong, 东) for East Sea Fleet, North (Bei, 北) for North Sea Fleet, and South (Nan, 南) for South Sea Fleet. However, the pennant numbers may have changed due to the change of Chinese naval ships naming convention.