HMS Penzance (L28)

The third HMS HMS Penzance (L28) was a Hastings-class sloop launched in 1930, and torpedoed and sunk in 1940 whilst on convoy protection duty by GERMAN SUBMARINE U-37 with the loss of 90 of her 104 crew. She is named after the Cornish port of Penzance and is the third to bear that name.

Convoy escort
HMS Penzance was the only armed escort of Convoy SC–1 which left Sydney, Nova Scotia on 15 August 1940 and by the 24th was 700 miles south–west of Iceland. She was hit by a torpedo on the starboard side, split in two, and some of her depth charges activated by the water pressure exploded and she sank in minutes.