HMS Moth (1915)

Scuttled in World War II during the invasion of Hong Kong, the ship was raised and put into service by the Imperial Japanese Navy as Suma (須磨).The ship remained active throughout the war, before striking a naval mine in the Yangtze River in 1945 and sinking.Moth was laid down during the first half of 1915 at the yards of the Sunderland Shipbuilding Company, with her sister ship Mantis.On 26 December Suma was attacked by seven P-51s, with the aft 25 mm gun wrecked and 18 killed and four wounded.The aft gun was replaced and repairs made to the ship 28–30 December at Yanhu.
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