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Dread Knot · 02-28-11, 08:41 AM

There was a British destroyer that was seized and served in the Imperial Japanese Navy as well. The Admiralty class destroyer Thracian was beached by accident on December 25th, 1941 at Hong Kong and was captured when that port fell to the Japanese. She was repaired and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy on November, 25th 1942. By March 1944 she had been reclassified as a training ship and was attached as a tender to the Yokosuka Torpedo School in Japan.

She was scrapped after the war in 1946.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Thracian_(1920)

02-28-11, 08:41 AM	#6
Dread Knot Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,288 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	There was a British destroyer that was seized and served in the Imperial Japanese Navy as well. The Admiralty class destroyer Thracian was beached by accident on December 25th, 1941 at Hong Kong and was captured when that port fell to the Japanese. She was repaired and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy on November, 25th 1942. By March 1944 she had been reclassified as a training ship and was attached as a tender to the Yokosuka Torpedo School in Japan. She was scrapped after the war in 1946. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Thracian_(1920)