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Imperial Japanese Navy Nanyo, gunboat.
54.9 feet, 6.69 beam, two guns.
Former British minesweeper of Bangor class, demolished on the stocks by the British when Hong Kong was taken over by the Japanese in December 1941.
Taken over by the Japanese and launched in 1942. Completed as a gunboat. Its sister ships commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy minesweepers.
Sunk by American aircraft off Formosa Straits December 23 1943.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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