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| Keywords: Chinese cruiser Chung King in 1948.jpg The Chinese light cruiser Chung King Chung King was commissioned as the Arethusa-class cruiser HMS Aurora 12 of the Royal Navy on 12 November 1937 After the Second World War Aurora was sold on 19 May 1948 to the Chinese Navy as compensation for six Chinese custom patrol ships and one freighter that the British seized in Hong Kong and lost during the war She was renamed Chung King and became the flagship of Chinese navy On 25 February 1949 her crew defected to the Communists and the ship was renamed Tchoung King a variation on her previous name In March 1949 she was sunk in Taku harbour by Nationalist aircraft She was later salvaged with Russian assistance but then stripped bare as repayment The empty hulk spent the rest of her life as an accommodation and warehouse ship being subsequently renamed Hsuang Ho 1951 Pei Ching 1951 and Kuang Chou Her name tablet and shipbell were preserved in Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing China http //www navy mil/ah_online/department_arch html U S Navy All Hands magazine http //www navy mil/ah_online/archpdf/ah194901 pdf January 1949 p 20 ca 1948 U S Navy All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official U S Navy photographs unless otherwise designated PD-USGov-Military-Navy HMS Aurora ship 1937 Naval ships of the Republic of China | ||||
