The invention relates to a maritime radio communication monitoring and direction finding system which is characterized by comprising a vertical polarization monitoring and direction finding antenna array, a five-channel signal switching module, an amplification module, a five-channel receiver, a digital signal processor (DSP) processing module, a computer, a monitoring and direction finding controller, a 3rd generation (3G) antenna, a radio station antenna, a 3G router, a digital broadcasting station, a switchboard, an electronic compass, a global positioning system (GSP) module and a GSP antenna. The maritime radio communication monitoring and direction finding system has the advantages that: an interfering signal can be monitored better due to the working frequencies ranging from 30 to 500MHz; simultaneous direction finding of several coherent waves is realized; simultaneous direction finding and ultrahigh-resolution digital direction finding of transmitting signals with same frequency and different directions are realized; direction finding of digital frequency hopping, a spread spectrum and a burst signal is realized; monitoring and measuring on different frequency domains, different time domains and different modulation domains can be simultaneously performed during measuring due to respective local oscillation of five channels; the problem of cross coupling among all antenna array elements is solved; the coupling and the phase ambiguity among unit antennas are removed; and dynamic application ranges of received signals are expanded.