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HMS Pennywort
Flower-class corvette / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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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 |
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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) |
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Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
Complement | 85 |
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