HMS Penylan

Hunt-class destroyer destroyer

Service

Royal Navy as HMS Penylan25 August 1942 — 3 December 1942100 days of the war

Hunt-class destroyer destroyer Particulars

Name: HMS Penylan
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness
Ordered: 23 August 1940
Laid down: 4 June 1941
Launched: 17 March 1942
Commissioned: 25 August 1942
Fate: Sunk on 3 December 1942 (1942)
Status: Wreck

Specifications

Displacement, full load: 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
Length: 85.34 m (280 ft)
Beam: 10.06 m (33 ft)
Draught: 2.44 m (8 ft)
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
Range: 2,350 nmi (4,352 km)
Complement: 168
Main gun: 102 mm (4 in)

HMS Penylan was a Hunt-class destroyer destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness laid her keel on 4 June 1941. Launched on 17 March 1942, she entered service on 25 August 1942.

Her class ran to 24 ships.

Displacement was 1,050 long tons. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 10.1 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 27 knots, and she carried a complement of 168. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.

She was in commission for 100 days of the Second World War.

She was sunk on 3 December 1942. The wreck survives.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Propulsion: Two x Admiralty 3 drum boilers
Two shaft Parsons geared turbines
19,000 shp
Armament: 4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI on twin mounts Mk. XIX
4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII
2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III
2 × tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes
110 depth charges, 4 throwers, 3 racks

Sister ships

Sources

Facts harvested from HMS Penylan on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 12865 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons