HMS Lookout (G32)

Lookout at Greenock, 21 January 1942
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Lookout
Ordered	31 March 1938
Builder	Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock
Laid down	23 November 1938
Launched	4 November 1940
Commissioned	30 January 1942
Identification	Pennant number: G32
Honours and awards	Diego Suarez 1942 Malta Convoys 1942 Arctic 1942 North Africa 1942–43 Sicily 1943 Salerno 1943 South France 1944 Mediterranean 1943–45
Fate	Sold for scrapping, 6 January 1948
Badge	On a Field per fess wavy White and Blue, a man in crow's nest of Whaler, all proper.
General characteristics
Class and type	L-class destroyer
Displacement	1,920 tons
Length	362.5 ft (110.5 m)
Beam	36.7 ft (11.2 m)
Draught	10 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion	Two shafts Two geared steam turbines Two drum type boilers 48000 shp (35.8 MW)
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h)
Range	5,500 nautical miles (10,200 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement	221
Armament	Original configuration: 3 × 2 – QF 4.7-inch Mk XI dual purpose guns 1 × 1 – QF 4-inch Mk V anti-aircraft gun 1 × 4 – QF 2-pounder Mk VIII anti-aircraft guns 2 × 4 – QF .5-inch Vickers Mk III anti-aircraft machine guns 2 × 4 – 21-inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes

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 one of only two L-class destroyers to survive the Second World War, the other being Loyal.

Ordered under the 1937 Programme, Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company were awarded the contract to build her. She would be the second Royal Navy ship to bear the name Lookout. Build was completed on 30 January 1942 and the tender cost was £440,204 which excluded items such as weapons and communications equipment supplied by the Admiralty.

After a successful Warship Week National Savings campaign in January 1942, HMS Lookout was adopted by the civil community of Burnley, Lancashire.