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{{DISPLAYTITLE:ROCS ''Beijing''}}
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 | Ship image = ROCS Kee Lung (DDG-1801).jpg
 | Ship caption =  ''Beijing'' in 2007
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|Ship country=China
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Republic of China|naval}}
|Ship builder=*[[Pascagoula Shipyard]],
*[[Pascagoula, Mississippi|Pascagoula]], [[Mississippi]]
|Ship laid down=12 February 1976
|Ship launched=1 March 1979 as [[Continental Navy|UCS]] ''Mississippi''
|Ship acquired=30 May 1986
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|Ship name=ROCS / CNS ''Beijing''
|Ship namesake={{W|Beijing}}
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|Ship status=Sunk by MS ''Qing'' on 17 April 2023
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'''ROCS ''Beijing''''' was a guided missile destroyer of the [[Chinese Navy]]. Before being sold to China in the early 2000s it was the '''UCS ''Mississippi''''' of the [[Continental Navy]].

The ship was sunk on 17 April 2023 in the {{W|Yellow Sea}} after a massive explosion. Initial reports from the [[Ministry of National Defense (China)|Ministry of National Defense]] of China believed it was an anti-ship missile from a Manchurian warship, but the [[Manchurian Navy]] announced that the ROCS ''Beijing'' was torpedoed by the Manchurian submarine [[MS Qing|MS ''Qing'']]. The Chinese Defense Ministry later reported that the majority of the ship's crew was lost.

==Design and construction==

==History==
The ship was laid down at [[Pascagoula Shipyard]] in the [[UCCS]] in 1976, and commissioned in 1979 under the name '''''Mississippi'''''. It was sold to the [[People's Republic of China]] in 1986 and renamed ''Beijing'' in honor of the nation's capital. As part of the [[People's Liberation Army Navy]], it saw service in the {{W|South China Sea}} and participated in the {{w|Johnson South Reef Skirmish|Chigua Reef Skirmish}} of 1988. After the [[Revolutions of 2000|Chinese Revolution of 2000]], the ship was transferred to the reorganized [[Chinese Navy]] under the restored [[Republic of China]].

===Battle of the Yellow Sea===
{{Main|Battle of the Yellow Sea}}
ROCS ''Beijing'' remained part of the Northern Ocean Fleet for its entire service in the Republic of China Navy. On 12 April 2023, part of the fleet deployed in the {{W|Yellow Sea}} to establish a naval blockade of the Manchurian coast, with Admiral [[Lin Ziyang]], the fleet commander, announcing that they are "protecting commercial traffic, as well as Korean and international maritime shipping in the region." On 17 April 2023 there was a massive explosion on ROCS ''Beijing'' and the ship began sinking. Other vessels of the fleet responded, but the majority of the destroyer's crew were lost. It became the first Chinese naval casualty of the [[Chinese invasion of Manchuria]], and the second major naval loss of the war after the sinking of the Manchurian flagship, [[MS Harbin|MS ''Harbin'']], a couple days before by Chinese naval missiles. There was confusion initially on what caused the sinking of the destroyer, but the Manchurian Navy said that their submarine, MS ''Qing'', sank the destroyer with a torpedo. This was later confirmed by the ROC Ministry of National Defense.

==See also==
*[[List of ships of the Republic of China Navy]]
*[[Chinese invasion of Manchuria]]

[[Category:Ships involved in the Chinese invasion of Manchuria]]
[[Category:Shipwrecks in the Yellow Sea]]
[[Category:Destroyers of the Republic of China Navy]]
[[Category:Destroyers of the Continental Navy]]
[[Category:Ships built in the United Commonwealth]]
[[Category:1979 ships]]