HMS Penylan (L89)

Casualty List

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)

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