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Dates: 1997 - HMS Penzance (M106) is a Sandown class minehunter commissioned by the Royal Navy in 1998. She is named after the Cornwall seaside town of the same name, and is the fourth vessel to bear the name. Launched by HRH Princess Michael of Kent on the 11 March 1997, the current HMS Penzance was commissioned on 14 May 1998 and is the fourth to bear the name. The first two ships were small frigates commissioned in 1665 and 1747 respectively. The third was a Bridgewater class sloop launched at Devonport in 1930. Employed on convoy duties, Penzance left Cape Breton, Nova Scotia on 15 August 1940 as the sole escort to a convoy bound for Great Britain. Nine days later intercepted by U37, Penzance was torpedoed and sunk with the loss of her captain and 89 men. Penzance and her crew are commemorated on memorials at Chatham Cathedral and the Cathedral in Trinidad’s Port of Spain.
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" Aircraft Carriers. Ship Name, Launch Date, Displacement, Total Crew. HMS Invincible 1977--22,000--1051. HMS Illustrious 197--22,000--1051. HMS Ark Royal 1981--22,000--1051. Amphibious Assault Ships Ship. HMS Ocean 1995--20,700--265. HMS Albion 2001--18,500--363. HMS Bulwark ..."
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" WWII was only a few weeks old when, the Revenge-class battleship HMS Royal Oak was torpedoed at anchor by the German submarine U-47 in the early hours of Saturday 14 October, 1939, at its base at Scapa Flow in Orkney. Most of the 1,200 crew were asleep below deck. The first salvo ..."
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