The existing circuit breaker capacity can’t satisfy the status of modern ship DC power system short-circuit current disjunction. According to that, this paper proposes a hybrid type DC superconducting current limiter scheme; according to that short-circuit current rise rate of ship DC electric system is as high as 20A/μs, the current limiter needs to complete rapid commutation of short circuit current, thus it researches the forced commutation method. This paper discusses the working principle of DC hybrid type superconducting current limiter and analyzes its limiting process. Under the condition of given parameters of power system short-circuit current, and combined with the circuit simulation software, the auxiliary commutation circuit branch parameters are designed. The experimental results show that the forced commutation method completes the communication of 7 680 A short-circuit current with rise rate 20.4 A/ms in 38 ms, the hybrid scheme is feasible, and the forced commutation method can achieve rapid communication of short circuit current. This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51607185).