HMS Penylan (L89)
Navy: | Royal Navy |
Type: | Escort destroyer |
Class: | Hunt (Type III) |
Pennant: | L 89 |
Built by: | Vickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) |
Laid down: | 4 Jun, 1941 |
Launched: | 17 Mar, 1942 |
Commissioned: | 25 Aug, 1942 |
Complement: | 168 |
Lost: | 3 Dec, 1942 Sunk by torpedo from the German Motor Torpedo Boat (S-boat) S 115 in the English Channel, 5 miles south of Start Point. She was escorting coastal convoy PW-257 at the time. (British Coastal Convoys) |