Battle of Chumonchin Chan
Part of theKorean War
Torpedo boat No.21 on display at theMuseum of Victory of the Fatherland Liberation War,Pyongyang. North Korean propaganda mistaking a United Nations forces ship forUSS Baltimore (CA-68) which was never deployed to the Korean War. It also claims the heavy cruiser was sunk by North Korean torpedo boats during the battle.
Date July 2, 1950 Location offChumonchin Port,Sea of Japan Result United Nations victory
Belligerents
United Nations: United Kingdom United States	North Korea
Commanders and leaders
Jesse D. Sowell	Kim Kun Ok
Strength
2cruisers 1Sloop	4motor torpedo boats 2gunboats 10ammunition ships
Casualties and losses
None	Unknown human casualties, 3 torpedo boats sunk

TheBattle of Chumonchin Chan or theaction of 2 July 1950 was fought betweensurface combatants during the main phase of theKorean War. It began after an Alliedflotilla encountered aKorean People's Navy supply fleet.

On 2 July 1950,USS Juneau,HMS Black Swan, andHMS Jamaica were sailing along the coast of theSea of Japan when they encountered four North Korean torpedo and gunboats that had just finished escorting a flotilla of ten ammunition ships up the coast. The North Korean torpedo boats began an attack on the allied ships. Before their torpedoes could be fired however, they were met with a salvo of gunfire from the United Nations ships which destroyed three of the torpedo boats. The surviving North Korean craft fled. Later in July,Juneau encountered the same ammunition ships and destroyed them.

TheVictorious War Museum inPyongyang, North Korea has several exhibits which claim that theUSSBaltimore (CA-68) was sunk by motor torpedo boats belonging to theKorean People's Navy, under the command of Kim Kun Ok.^[1] Exhibits include a poster and the "actual" boat which supposedly sank the American cruiser. However, theBaltimore was in theUnited States Navy’s decommissioned reserve from 1946 to 1951 andmothballed in Bremerton, Washington, therefore she did not participate in any battles anywhere in 1950. In 1951, theBaltimore was recommissioned and assigned to the Atlantic (not Pacific) Fleet, and in 1955, she was transferred to the Pacific Fleet, two years after the end of the Korean War. She was struck from the Navy list on 15 February 1971, sold on 10 April 1972 to theZidell Ship Dismantling Company of Portland, Oregon, and subsequently scrapped in September 1972.

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