"Northern Ocean Fleet"@en . . . . "Qing Dynasty"@en . . . . . "1871"^^ . "Beiyang Fleet"@en . . "\u5317\u6D0B\u8266\u968A"@en . . "Qing Dynasty"@en . . . . . "The Beiyang Fleet (Pei-yang Fleet; , alternatively Northern Seas Fleet) was one of the four modernised Chinese navies in the late Qing Dynasty. Among the four, the Beiyang Fleet was particularly sponsored by Li Hongzhang, one of the most trusted vassals of Empress Dowager Cixi and the principal patron of the \"self-strengthening movement\" in northern China in his capacity as the Viceroy of Zhili and the Minister of Beiyang Commerce (\u5317\u6D0B\u901A\u5546\u5927\u81E3). Due to Li's influence in the imperial court, the Beiyang Fleet garnered much greater resources than the other Chinese fleets and soon became the dominant navy in East Asia before the onset of First Sino-Japanese War in 1894\u20131895 \u2014 it was the largest in the Far East and the 8th in the world during the late 1880s in terms of tonnage.[citation needed]"@en . "Pei3-yang2 Chien4-tui4"@en . . . . . . . "B\u011Biy\u00E1ng Ji\u00E0ndu\u00EC"@en . "\u5317\u6D0B\u8230\u961F"@en . . "Beiyang Fleet"@en . . "The Beiyang Fleet (Pei-yang Fleet; , alternatively Northern Seas Fleet) was one of the four modernised Chinese navies in the late Qing Dynasty. Among the four, the Beiyang Fleet was particularly sponsored by Li Hongzhang, one of the most trusted vassals of Empress Dowager Cixi and the principal patron of the \"self-strengthening movement\" in northern China in his capacity as the Viceroy of Zhili and the Minister of Beiyang Commerce (\u5317\u6D0B\u901A\u5546\u5927\u81E3). Due to Li's influence in the imperial court, the Beiyang Fleet garnered much greater resources than the other Chinese fleets and soon became the dominant navy in East Asia before the onset of First Sino-Japanese War in 1894\u20131895 \u2014 it was the largest in the Far East and the 8th in the world during the late 1880s in terms of tonnage.[citation needed]"@en . .