HMS Penylan (L89)
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HMS Penylan was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was a member of the third subgroup of the class, and saw service in the Second World War, before being sunk by German E-boats in 1942.
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Name | HMS Penylan |
Ordered | 23 August 1940 |
Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness |
Laid down | 4 June 1941 |
Launched | 17 March 1942 |
Commissioned | 25 August 1942 |
Honours and awards | English Channel, 1942 |
Fate | Sunk on 3 December 1942 |
Badge | On a Field per pale Red and Green, within a horseshoe inverted Gold and a spear head White |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Hunt-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,050 tons standard; 1,435 tons full load |
Length | 280 ft (85 m) |
Beam | 33 ft 4 in (10.16 m) |
Draught | 8 ft 3 in (2.51 m) |
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Speed | 27 knots (25½ knots full) |
Range | 2,350 nmi (4,350 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Complement | 168 |
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