HMS Penzance (L28)
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 was named after the Cornish port of Penzance and was the third Royal Navy ship to bear that name.
HMS Penzance | |
| 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 |
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