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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
重庆 [Chung King] (ex-Aurora)			Portsmouth DYd, UK	23.7.1935	20.8.1936	12.11.1937 // 19.5.1948	CTL 20.3.1949, never repaired

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	5270
Displacement full, t	7400
Length, m	146.3 pp 154.2 oa
Breadth, m	15.5
Draught, m	5.51 deep load
No of shafts	4
Machinery	4 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	64000
Max speed, kts	32.3
Fuel, t	oil 1250 - 1325 (later 1115 - 1150)
Armour, mm	box protection to magazines: 76 - 25, belt: 57, bulkheads: 25, barbettes: 19, turrets: 25, deck: 25
Armament	3 x 2 - 152/50 Mk XXI, 4 x 2 - 102/45 Mk XIX, 2 x 4 - 40/39 Mk VII, 3 x 2 - 20/70 Mk V, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 х 3 - 533 TT
Electronic equipment	type 281, type 284, type 285 radars
Complement	500

Standard scale images

Project history

The ex-RN cruiser Aurora was sold to China, fetched by a crew of 682, and defected to the Communists in Shanghai on 2 March 1949

Protection

Armoured belt protected machinery spaces (57mm armour on 13mm plating) and extended to upper deck abreast boiler rooms and fore engine room and to main deck abreast aft engine room. Machinery and steering gear also were protected by 25mm armoured deck. Magazines were covered by 76mm longitudinal and 76mm transverse bulkheads and 51mm crowns.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

 The Nationalists aviation bombed the Chung King at Taku some days and 20.3.1949 Nationalists bombers finally sank her. Later the wreck was salvaged but the repair was recognized as too expensive. Later the hull was used as accommodation and warehouse hulk and finally was scrapped in 1990s.

© Ivan Gogin, 2015