HMS Penzance

Last updated October 17, 2021

There have been four ships of the Royal Navy name HMS Penzance, named for the port of Penzance in Cornwall. The ships motto is Diligenter Pensa (Diligent thought).

The first HMS Penzance (1665) was a frigate of 1665
The second HMS Penzance (1747) was a frigate of 1747
The third HMS Penzance (L28) was a Hastings-class sloop launched in 1930 and torpedoed and sunk in 1940 whilst on convoy protection duty by U-37.
The fourth and current HMS Penzance (M106) is a Sandown-class minehunter launched in 1997 and commissioned in 1998.

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.

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