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Frederick Edward Pym DSM, DDG, MDH

Royal Navy Q7 HMS Penshurst

from:Topsham, Devon

HMS Penshurst was a Mystery Ship or Q ship (Q7) successfully used by the RN as decoy ships against German submarines. Their guns were concealed and the crew did not wear RN uniforms.

Qy was sunk at 51° 43'.276 N 005° 40'.192 W (off The Smalls, Pembrokeshire, 21 miles off St. David’s Head) by U110 German submarine. Penshurst was one of the RN’s most successful Q-ships, fighting eleven engagements over a two-year period, and destroying two U-boats and damaging several others in that time



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