HMS PENZANCE; 1,025 tons Bridgwater class sloop; 1931 Completed Devonport Dockyard; Under Captain Allan J. Wavish, left Nova Scotia 15 August 1940, sole escort of Convoy SC-1; torpedoed and sunk 24 August 1940 North Atlantic, SW of Iceland by U-37. 90 men went down with the ship. BLAIRMORE picked up the seven surviviors; also later attacked by the same submarine and torpedoed. Survivors again abandoned ship; later rescued by Swedish merchant ship EKNAREN, taken to Baltimore, Maryland, USA
