HMS Pennywort

HMS Pennywort was a Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She served as an ocean escort in the Battle of the Atlantic.

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Pennywort
Ordered: 12 December 1939
Builder: A & J Inglis Ltd.., Glasgow, Scotland
Laid down: 11 March 1941
Launched: 18 October 1941
Commissioned: 5 March 1942
Out of service: 1947 - sold
Identification: Pennant number: K111
Fate: sold 1947; scrapped 1949
General characteristics
Class and type: Flower-class corvette (original)
Displacement: 925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 short tons)
Length: 205 ft (62.48 m)o/a
Beam: 33 ft (10.06 m)
Draught: 11.5 ft (3.51 m)
Propulsion:
  • single shaft
  • 2 × fire tube Scotch boilers
  • 1 × 4-cycle triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine
  • 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW)
Speed: 16 knots (29.6 km/h)
Range: 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h)
Complement: 85
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • 1 × SW1C or 2C radar
  • 1 × Type 123A or Type 127DV sonar
Armament:
  • 1 × BL 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mk.IX single gun
  • 2 x double Lewis machine gun
  • 2 × twin Vickers machine gun
  • 2 × Mk.II depth charge throwers
  • 2 × Depth charge rails with 40 depth charges
  • initially with minesweeper equipment, later removed

Service history

On 17 March, 1943, she picked up 70 survivors from James Oglethorp, an American merchant torpedoed by the German submarine U-758 and Elin K., a Norwegian merchant torpedoed and sunk by U-603. On 18 March, 1943, she, along with HMS Anemone picked up 54 survivors from Canadian Star, a British merchant torpedoed and sunk by U-221. On 12 August, 1944, she, along with HMT Damsay, picked up 59 survivors from Orminster, a British merchant sunk by U-480.[1]

References
  1. "HMS Pennywort (K 111)". uboat.net. July 10, 2017.

Sources
  • Friedman, Norman (2008). British Destroyers & Frigates - The Second World War and After. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-015-4.
  • Gardiner, Robert (1987). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
  • Preston, Antony; Raven, Alan (1982). Flower Class Corvettes. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-559-2.
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