From Combined Fleet.com.
This is where there is some discrepancy.
1932-- Laid down at Kiangnan Shipyard as the Teh Hsing.
1941-- Captured by the Japanese at the fall of Hong Kong, 25 December 1941.
1943-- 1 March 1943, officially requisitioned by the Japanese Navy and registered as an auxiliary gunboat and attached to Sasebo Naval District. Begins conversion to gunboat at the IJN's No. 2 Repair Facility.
1943-- 20 march 1943, conversion completed and renamed Nanyo. Remains in Hong Kong being fitted out. Once in service it went on quite a few cruises from June to December.
1943-- 23 December 1943 in South China Sea, Mashi Tao (Matsu or Mazy) Island anchorage, off Foochow. Major General Claire L. Chennault's 14th Air Force North American B-25 "Mitchell Medium Bombers sink the Nanyo with unknown casualties.
--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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