HMS Looe/HMS Lyemun/IJN Nanyo-- Part 3: One of Four British Minesweeper Being Build When Hong Kong Fell

From the Royal Navy Research and Archive.org.uk.

The Imperial Japanese Navy gunboat Nanyo was later sunk in the Formosa Straits.  It was one of four Bangor-class minesweepers on the stocks when the Japanese captured Hong Kong on December 25, 1941.

The HMS Lantan was completed as the merchant ship Gyosel Maru in 1942.  Renamed the Shima Maru in 1943.  Survived the war.

HMS Taitam.  became the IJN minesweeper 101 in 1944.  Sunk by American aircraft off Cape Padarin 10 March 1945.

HMS Waglan became IJN minesweeper 102 in 1944.  Damaged by American aircraft off Keelung on 3 February 1945.  Returned to the Royal Navy after the war.

--GreGen