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An item referred to a low grade report reporting that the Communist Chinese cruiser Chungking (ex-Aurora) which arived at Dairen in 1953 after she was refloated, departed in March 1954 under own steam. Recently investigations confirmed the report that the ship was no longer at Dairen. She was apparently at least sufficiently repaired to move under own steam although it was strange that her position was unknown. There was a possibility that she was broken up.(1)
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1. (ex-HMS Aurora 1935-1949, Chung King 1948-1949) Chungking or Tchoung King 1949-1959 (Huang He 1959-1965, Pei Ching 1965-, Kuang Chou). Part of Arethusa-class light cruisers preceded by Leander-class succeeded by Town and Dido-classes. Laid down by Portsmouth Dockyard on 27 July 1935, launched on 20 August 1936, commissioned on 12 November 1937, decommissioned in April 1948, sold to the Nationalist Chinese Nay on 19 May 1948, in hands due to mutiny of Communist China on 25 February 1949, sunk on 21 March 1949, refloated with Russian support and stripped, to be refitted along the lines of the Chinese Anshan-class destroyers (former Russian Gnevny-class) but not executed being too expensive, hulk used for accomodation purposes and as warehouse, transferred to Shanghai for conversion into a salvage ship on 27 October 1959, conversion stopped and transferred to Tianjin in June 1965, became a barracks ship and finally broken up.
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