HMS Pakenham (G06)
| Navy: | Royal Navy |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Class: | P |
| Pennant: | G 06 Leader |
| Built by: | Hawthorn Leslie & Co. (Hebburn-on-Tyne, U.K.) |
| Laid down: | 6 Feb, 1940 |
| Launched: | 28 Jan, 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 4 Feb, 1942 |
| Complement: | 176 |
| Lost: | 16 Apr, 1943 (Capt. Stevens RN )
(c
37-30'N, 12-30'E) Scuttled by allied forces after sustaining heavy damages in action off Sicily. SW of Marsala
by 3.9" gunfire from torpedo boats 'Cassiopea and
Cigno'
Cigno was sunk in this action |
| History: |
30 Oct, 1942 The German submarine U-559 was sunk in the Mediterranean north-east of Port Said, in position 32.30N, 33.00E, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Pakenham, HMS Petard, HMS Hero and the British escort destroyers HMS Dulverton, HMS Hurworth and a British Wellesley aircraft. |
| Former name: | HMS Onslow |
