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HMS Pentstemon

list of ships with the same or similar names

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ60794026 ↗
Source-derived summary

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Pentstemon (or Penstemon) after the flower:

HMS Pentstemon (1916), an Arabis-class sloop launched in 1916 she was sold in 1920 into mercantile service as Lila. Subsequently, became the Chinese gunboat "Hai Chow" and sunk in 1937.

HMS Pentstemon (K61), a Flower-class corvette launched in 1941 and sold in 1946 into mercantile service as Galaxidi.

References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (3rd Rev ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.

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The public source identifies “HMS Pentstemon” as list of ships with the same or similar names. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pentstemon, list and ships.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1916, 1920, 1937, 1941—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pentstemon, list and ships providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “HMS Pentstemon”, the useful work is to connect “list of ships with the same or similar names” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60794026. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1916, 1920, 1937 and 1941.

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This entry incorporates text from “HMS Pentstemon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.