HMS Aurora(pennant number 12) is the British Royal Navy Arethusa-class light cruiser. HMS Aurora was built in Portsmouth shipyard, and it was recruited on 12 November 1937.
HMS Aurora Service
HMS Aurora joined the Home Fleet recruitment and is the flagship of the fighters. The ship was in September with 2 Risteilijäviirikön escorting ships to Scandinavia and moved to look for the German Navy battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Norwegian boats took part in the fighting after the German battleship Bismarck hunted the northern Atlantic. During the operation, together with the boat, HMS Kenya stopped on 13 June 1941, a German aid ship, Belchen.
HMS Aurora was in July and August as part of the Home Fleet Force K, together with the ship, took part in the Spitsbergen and Bear Island operations. After the procedure, together with the boat HMS Nigeria, surprised a German troop convoy in northern Norway and sank the German Army units transporting vessels to have been protected by the training ship Bremse.
In the autumn, HMS Aurora was transferred to the Mediterranean Sea, and it arrived on 21 October in Malta as part of Force K, which was to disrupt Axis supply transportation from Italy to North Africa. Force K was highly influential in destroying several ships of Malta placed together with the fighters.
Force K’s operations, however, suffered a significant setback, sinking HMS Neptune and HMS Aurora HMS Penelope, as well as damaging the damage after hitting a mine in the same way. Emergency repairs were made on board Malta, after which it sailed on 29 March - Liverpool cent actual maintenance.
HMS Aurora returned to the service of returning to the Mediterranean Sea in late June 1942. The ship joined Force H in Gibraltar, and it was in November to one a group of North African countries on the rise. Oran, in front of the boat, collided on 8 November with Vichy France’s fleet (great fighter) and Tramontana Tornadeen. As a result, Tramontana sank, and Tornade was so severely damaged that it had to be controlled in order to prevent the sinking of the shoal. The next day, HMS Aurora badly damaged derailleurs Eperviere and forced it to countries.
HMS Aurora was in December as part of the Force Q. Bone peninsula Axis Trapani’s and Tunisia’s between evacuations. The ship participated in the invasion of Sicily and Salerno, connected to 15 Risteilijäviirikköön October before the transfer of the Aegean Sea.
HMS Aurora was damaged on 30 October by Castelorizon takeover bid during the bomb hit. The ship was transferred to Taranto for repairs. The ship returned to service in April 1944. The ship took part in the South of France in August for a landing, after which it returned to the Aegean Sea to assist in the release of Athens.
After the war, HMS Aurora was sold to 19 May 1948, the National China, who baptized the ship Chung Kingiksi. The communists forced the boat on the same day and renamed it Tchoung Kingiksi. The ship sank in March 1949, however, the port of Taku national air bombardment. Later, it was raised, but it is not likely to ever come back the service, even if it was re-named in 1950 Hsuang Hoksi, 1951 Pei Ching Kuang, and eventually Chouksi.