HMS Aurora (12)
Arethusa-class cruiser (1934) light cruiser
Service
- as HMS Aurora12 November 1937 — April 19462,193 days of the war
- as Chung King19 May 1948 — 25 February 1949
- as Tchoung KingFebruary 1949 — March 1949
- Name
- HMS Aurora
- Pennant / hull number
- 12
- Builder
- Portsmouth Dockyard
- Laid down
- 27 July 1935
- Launched
- 20 August 1936
- Commissioned
- 12 November 1937
- Decommissioned
- April 1946
- Fate
- Sunk by ROC aircraft, March 1949. Later refloated and converted for other purposes. Scrapped during Cultural Revolution (1949)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 5,220 long tons (5,304 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 6,665 long tons (6,772 t)
- Length
- 154.23 m (506 ft)
- Beam
- 15.54 m (51 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Complement
- 500
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
HMS Aurora was a Arethusa-class cruiser (1934) light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number 12. Her keel was laid at Portsmouth Dockyard on 27 July 1935. She entered service on 12 November 1937, having been launched on 20 August 1936.
Displacement was 5,220 long tons standard and 6,665 long tons at full load. She measured 154.2 m (506 ft) long with a beam of 15.5 m (51 ft). Her designed speed was 32 knots, and she carried a complement of 500. Her main battery was of 152 mm (6.0 in) calibre.
She served with the Royal Navy as HMS Aurora until April 1946. She then passed to the Chinese Navy, serving as Chung King from 19 May 1948. She then passed to the Chinese Navy, serving as Tchoung King from February 1949. She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in April 1946.
She was broken up for scrap in March 1949.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Four Parsons geared steam turbines
- Four Admiralty 3-drum oil-fired boilers
- Four shafts
- 64,000 shp
- Armament
- Original configuration:
- 6 × BL 6 in guns
- 4 × QF 4 inch single Mk V AA guns
- 2 × 0.5 inch quadruple machine guns
- 2 × 21 inch torpedo tubes (triple mount)
- April 1941 configuration:
- 3 × 6-inch (152 mm) dual guns
- 2 × 2-pounder (40 mm) pom-pom quad AA guns
- 3 × 20 mm Oerlikon single AA guns
- 2 × 0.5-inch quadruple machine guns
- 2 × 21-inch (533 mm) triple torpedo tubes.
- December 1943 configuration:
- 3 × 6-inch (152 mm) dual guns
- 2 × 40 mm Bofors quad AA guns
- 4 × 20 mm Oerlikon dual power-operated AA guns
- 3 × 20 mm Oerlikon single AA guns
- 2 × 0.5-inch quadruple machine guns
- 2 × 21-inch (533 mm) triple torpedo tubes
- Armour
- Original configuration:
- 1 to 3 inches – magazine protection
- 2.25 inches – belt
- 1 inches – deck, turrets and bulkheads
- Aircraft
- One aircraft (later removed)
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Aurora (12) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the Digital Public Library of America , via its partner Digital Public Library of America . Record in source catalog DPLA identifier: 3f99bee6ea3de0f696b79ef86e62631d National Archives Identifier: 142664007 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons