Allied Warships

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
 
History

Sold 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

 

Commands listed for HMS Penn (G 77)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. James Hamilton Swain, RN2 Dec 1941Nov 1943
2Lt. Michael John Wake Pawsey, RNNov 194327 Nov 1944
3Lt.Cdr. Alexander Henderson Diack, DSC, RN27 Nov 1944Oct 1945 ?

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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. H.R. Hewlett, RN) intercept a Japanese landing craft and sink it with gunfire off the north-west coast of Sumatra.

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