H.M.S. AURORA, the guard ship stationed at the Tail of the Bank, Greenock.

HMS Aurora 1942 IWM A 8158.jpg
Aurora at anchor off Liverpool, April 1942
History
United Kingdom
Name HMS Aurora
Builder Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down 27 July 1935
Launched 20 August 1936
Commissioned 12 November 1937
Decommissioned April 1946
Identification Pennant number: 12
Fate Sold on 19 May 1948 to the Nationalist Chinese Navy
Republic of China
Name Chung King
Namesake Chongqing
Acquired 19 May 1948
Fate Defected to Communist China, 25 February 1949
People's Republic of China
Name Tchoung King
Acquired February 1949
Renamed
Huang He (1959)
Pei Ching (1965)
Kuang Chou
Fate Sunk by ROC aircraft, March 1949. Later refloated and converted for other purposes. Scrapped during Cultural Revolution
General characteristics
Class and type Arethusa-class light cruiser
Displacement
5,220 tons standard load
6,665 tons full load
Length 506 ft (154 m)
Beam 51 ft (16 m)
Draught 14 ft (4.3 m)
Propulsion
Four Parsons geared steam turbines
Four Admiralty 3-drum oil-fired boilers
Four shafts
64,000 shp
Speed 32 knots (59 km/h)
Range Unknown; 1,325 tons fuel oil
Complement 500
Armament
Original configuration:
6 × BL 6-inch (152 mm) guns
4 × QF 4-inch (102 mm) single Mk V AA guns
2 × 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) quadruple machine guns
2 × 21-inch (533 mm) 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[1][2]
Armour
Original configuration:
1 to 3 inches – magazine protection
2.25 inches – belt
1 inches – deck, turrets and bulkheads
Aircraft carried One aircraft (later removed)