HMS Penzance (L28)

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Penzance
Ordered: 4 April 1929
Builder: HM Dockyard, Devonport
Laid down: 29 July 1929
Launched: 10 April 1930
Completed: January 1931
Commissioned: 15 January 1931
Identification: L28
Fate: torpedoed by U-37 in 1940
General characteristics
Class and type: Hastings-class sloop
Displacement: 1045
Length: 76.2 metres (250 ft)
Beam: 10.4 metres (34 ft)
Draught: 2.4 metres (7 ft 10 in)
Complement: 104

The third HMS Penzance (L28) was a Hastings-class sloop launched in 1930, and torpedoed and sunk in 1940 whilst on convoy protection duty by the German submarine U-37 with the loss of 90 of her 104 crew. She is named after the Cornish port of Penzance and is the third to bear that name.

Convoy escort

HMS Penzance was the only armed escort of Convoy SC-1 which left Sydney, Nova Scotia on 15 August 1940 and by 24 August was 700 miles south–west of Iceland. She was hit by a torpedo on the starboard side, split in two, and some of her depth charges activated by the water pressure exploded and she sank in minutes.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ Woodhouse, Charles (14 June 2012). "Town's permanent tribute to dead of HMS Penzance". The Cornishman. p. 3.
  2. ↑ Claes, Johnny. "HMS Penzance (L 28)". wrecksite. Retrieved 18 June 2012.

Coordinates: 56°16′N 27°19′W / 56.267°N 27.317°W / 56.267; -27.317

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