HMS Lookout (G32)
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Built By: | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, (Greenock, Scotland) |
| Laid down: | 23 November, 1938 |
| Launched: | 4 November, 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 30 Jan, 1942 |
| Paid off: | |
| Fate: | Scrapped 6 January 1948 |
| Penant: | G32 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,920 tons |
| Length: | 345 feet |
| Beam: | |
| Draught: | |
| Propulsion: | Two Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2-shaft Parsons geared turbines, 48,000 shp |
| Speed: | 36 knots |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 221 |
| Armament: Original configuration: |
6-4.7inch (3x2) 1-4inch (anti-aircraft) 4-2pdr (AA)(1x4) 8-0.5inch (AA) (2x4) 4-21inch torpedo tubes (1x4) |
| Armour: | |
| Aircraft: | none |
HMS Lookout was an L class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 4 November 1940 and broken up in 1948.
She was with the Home Fleet in March 1942 when the German battleship Tirpitz made ineffective attempts to intercept Arctic convoys (Operation Sportpalast). There were no surface actions.[1]
Lookout participated in the allied occupation of Madagascar. She joined her sisterships HMS Lightning and HMS Laforey at Durban on 22 April 1942 and they departed on April 28 1942, en route for Diégo Suarez (now Antsiranana), with invasion transports and escort. On May 7th, the three L class destroyers escorted HMS Ramillies to search for an enemy battleship and cruisers - none were found, but Laforey sank an enemy submarine.[2]
In August 1942, Lookout was escorting the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle when she was torpedoed on 11th August and sank. Lookout helped to rescue the 927 survivors.[3]
Lookout supported the allied landings at Salerno (Operation Avalanche) in September 1943, shelling German gun positions in support of 56 Division.[4]
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