There have been four ships of the
Royal Navy name HMS ''Penzance'', named for the port of
Penzance
Penzance ( ; kw, Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is the most westerly major town in Cornwall and is about west-southwest of Plymouth and west-southwest of London. Situated ...
in
Cornwall. The ships motto is ''Diligenter Pensa'' (Diligent thought).
* The first was a
frigate
A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied somewhat.
The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ...
of 1665
* The second was a frigate of 1747
* The third was a
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
launched in 1930 and torpedoed and sunk in 1940 whilst on convoy protection duty by .
* The fourth and current is a launched in 1997 and commissioned in 1998.
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Royal Navy ship names