Further Research on the Seventh HMS Looe

I just spent about an hour doing further research on the seventh HMS Looe, the one that was a Bangor-class minesweeper, laid down in 1941 in Hong Kong, renamed HMS Lyemun while on the stocks, but captured by the Japanese at the fall of Hong Kong Dec. 25, 1941.

It was later completed as the Nan Yo and used as a Japanese navy ship until sunk later that year.

I found some material which will be posted later today on my World War II blog, "Tattooed On Your Soul."

--DaCoot

Interesting Histories to Former Ships By the Name HMS Looe

From Wikipedia.

There were seven ships in the British Navy of this name.  Of them, were wrecked, two became breakwaters, one was a former privateer and one was captured by the Japanese in 1941 and became a Japanese ship.

1st:  32-gun fifth rate launched 1696, wrecked 1697

2nd:  32-gun fifth rate launched 1697, wrecked 1705

3rd:  42-gun fifth rate launched 1707, reduced to harbor service 1735, sunk as breakwater 1737

4th:  44-gun fifth rate launched 1741, wrecked 1744  (Our HMS Looe)

5th:  44-gun fifth rate launched in 1745, sunk as breakwater 1759

6th:  30-gun fifth rate, formerly privateer Liverpool, purchased 1759, sold 1763

7th:  To have been a Bangor-class minesweeper.  Laid down 1941, renamed HMS Lyemun while still on stocks, but captured that year by the Japanese who completed it and launched it as the Nan Yo in 1943, lost later that year.

Wreck Me, Break Me.  --Cooter