What was the operator of HMS Thracian (1920) from 1945 to 1946?
HMS Thracian ( 1920 ) HMS Thracian was an built for the Royal Navy during the First World War . Description . The S-class destroyers were improved versions of the preceding Modified R class . They displaced . The ships had an overall length of , a beam of and a draught of . They were powered by two Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines , each driving one propeller shaft , using steam provided by two Yarrow boilers . The turbines developed a total of and gave a maximum speed of . The ships carried a maximum of of fuel oil that gave them a range of at . The ships complement was 90 officers and ratings . Thracian was armed with three QF Mark IV guns in single mounts and a single 2-pounder ( 40 mm ) pom-pom anti-aircraft gun . The ship was fitted with two twin mounts for torpedoes . Two additional single mounts were positioned abreast the bridge at the break of the forecastle for 18-inch ( 45 cm ) torpedoes . All torpedo tubes were above water and traversed to fire . Construction and career . HMS Thracian was laid down on 17 January 1918 at Hawthorn Leslie and Company , but she was not launched until 5 March 1920 due to financial constraints post-war limitation in naval expenditure . She was completed at Sheerness Dockyard on 1 April 1922 . Battle of Hong Kong . The ship took part in the Battle of Hong Kong in December 1941 , commanded by Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Luard Pears . She was the only destroyer defending the colony , after the departure of and for Singapore on 8 December . On 10 December , she took part in a raid on Japanese crafts attempting to land on Lamma Island . On 13 December , she participated in the evacuation of personnel from Kowloon and Green Island to Aberdeen , Hong Kong Island . On 16 December , she attacked Japanese boats that were preparing for the invasion of Hong Kong Island , but ran aground at Uk Kok . She was later refloated later that day and returned to Aberdeen dockyard . Further into the afternoon , she became the target of Japanese high-level bombing . A near miss caused several casualties . With the dockyard badly damaged , the damage Thracian suffered from running aground was considered too bad to fix . On the next day , she was deliberately run aground at Ngan Chau . The crew of Thracian continued to defend the colony as infantry , and would suffer heavy losses in the battle and subsequent captivity . On 24 December , Japanese troops began salvaging the ship , and she was later captured by the Imperial Japanese Army . Imperial Japanese Navy service ( 1942 – 1945 ) . On 1 October 1942 , she was registered to the naval ship list in the Imperial Japanese Navy , and classified as a special service ship ( patrol boat ) . She was renamed Patrol Boat No . 101 . On 25 November , repairs were completed by the Navy 2nd Construction Department , and she was assigned to the Yokosuka Naval District . Afterwards , she spent her time on convoy escort operations in the Yokosuka Area . On 15 August 1943 , she was assigned to the torpedo warfare school at Yokosuka . On 15 March 1944 , she was classified as the miscellaneous ship ( training ship ) , and renamed Special Training Ship No . 1 . She was used for a test bed for new weapons . By August 1945 , she was found in Yokosuka after an unsuccessful scuttling . In December , she was recovered by , only to be broken up in Hong Kong in 1946 . Further reading . - Rekishi Gunzō , History of Pacific War Vol.45 , Truth histories of the Imperial Japanese Naval Vessels , Gakken ( Japanese publisher ) , May 2004 , . - Ships of the World , special issue Vol.45 , Escort Vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy , , ( Japan ) , 1996 . - The Maru Special , Japanese Naval Vessels No.49 , Japanese submarine chasers and patrol boats , ( Japan ) , 1981 .