Continued from the previous post Combined Fleet.com.
Various secondary sources also state that the Nanyo (sometimes seen under the name Nanyo Maru, which would have been a freighter/transport ship) was the ex-British Bangor-class minesweeper Lyemun seized while under construction at Hong Kong when the Japanese occupied it.
It is believed that this vessel, or her sister ship Lantan became the Gyoshin Maru which survived the war. Two other seized Bangor-class minesweepers seized while under construction at Hong Kong became the IJN minesweepers W-101 and W-102.
Several authoritative records, including NARA and GAKKEN, list the Nanyo as the ex Teh Hsing and we have made this assumption accordingly.
Lyemun or Teh Hsing? --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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