HMS Lookout (G32)

HMS Lookout (G32)

Original configuration:

• 6 x 4.7inch (3x2)
• 1 x 4inch (anti-aircraft)
• 4 x 2pdr (AA)(1x4)
• 8 x 0.5inch (AA) (2x4)
• 4 x 21inch torpedo tubes (1x4)

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 HMS 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.