The invention relates to a method for producing hot rolled steel coils for ship building. The method comprises the following steps: 1) designing the components, pretreating molten iron, then carrying out converter smelting, carrying out nitrogen/argon changing over and carrying out tapping to obtain molten steel; 2) continuously casting the molten steel to obtain slabs, controlling the weight of the molten steel in the tundish to be 8-15t when casting of the continuous casting tundish is stopped, ensuring the liquid level to be 200-350mm; carrying out protective casting in the whole course and ensuring the insertion depth of the long nozzle to be 300-400mm; 3) heating the slabs; and 4) finally rolling and curling the heated slabs, thus obtaining the hot rolled steel coils. The method has the following beneficial effects: the TMCP (thermo-mechanical control process)+RPC (relaxation-precipitation-controlling phase transformation) rolling processes are adopted and the contents of C and Mn are substantially reduced by utilizing micro-niobium treatment, thus reducing the production cost; and the E32 hot rolled steel coils for ship building obtained by the method have excellent plasticity and toughness, the elongation of the hot rolled steel coils is improved by more than 8%, and at the same time, the welding property of the materials is improved and good surface quality of the continuous casting slabs is ensured.