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HMS Penn (G 77)

Destroyer of the P class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassP 
PennantG 77 
Built byVickers Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.) : Vickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) 
Ordered20 Oct, 1939 
Laid down26 Dec, 1939 
Launched12 Feb, 1941 
Commissioned10 Feb, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistorySold for scrap 30 October 1950.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. James Hamilton Swain, RN
2 December 1941 – November 1943
DSO awarded on 6 November 1942

Lt. Michael John Wake Pawsey, RN
November 1943 – 27 November 1944

Lt.Cdr. Alexander Henderson Diack, DSC, RN
27 November 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Penn include:

7 Nov, 1943
HMS Pathfinder (Lt.Cdr. C.W. Malins, RN) and HMS Penn (Lt.Cdr. J.H. Swain, DSO, RN) sink the German submarine trap GA 45 with gunfire off Amorgos, Greece.

15 Jun, 1945
HMS Penn (Lt.Cdr. A.H. Diack, DSC, RN) and HMS Paladin (Lt.Cdr. H.R. Hewlett, RNVR) intercept a Japanese landing craft and sink it with gunfire off the north-west coast of Sumatra.


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